Gujarat polls: 2nd phase polling today, fight shifts to urban centres

Urban centres like Ahmedabad and Vadodara have traditionally been the ruling BJP's strongholds

Voting for the second phase in Gujarat Assembly elections commences on Thursday. This phase takes the battle to the urban centres of Ahmedabad and Vadodara, which have traditionally been the ruling Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP)'s strongholds.

The voting follows a high-octane campaigning that ended on Tuesday with Prime Minister Narendra Modi's showstopper act of flying in a single-engine amphibious aircraft from Ahmedabad's Sabarmati riverfront.

Around 93 assembly constituencies (ACs) across 14 districts, including Ahmedabad, Banaskantha, Patan, Mehsana, Sabarkantha, Gandhinagar and Vadodara, will see voting from 8 am onwards till 5 pm in the second and final phase. The eligible voter-base