Gujarat polls next month to offer clue to BJP’s prospects in 2024
The state will vote in two phases on Dec. 1 and Dec. 5, and results are due on Dec. 8...
INDIAN Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s home state of Gujarat will go to the polls next month, the election commission said on Thursday (3), a vote that is likely to offer a clue to his party’s prospects in a general election due by 2024.
Modi remains popular despite criticism of inflation and unemployment, and his Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) expects to emerge victorious in state assembly elections in Gujarat in the west, and in Himachal Pradesh in the north.
The Gujarat assembly polls will be in two phases, on Dec. 1 and Dec. 5, the Election Commission of India said. Votes will be counted on Dec. 8 along with those from Himachal Pradesh, where polls will be held on Nov. 12.
Voters will go to the polls in Gujarat a month after the collapse of a suspension footbridge in the town of Morbi that killed