EC is Set to have a Press Briefing...
On Friday, The Election Commission is set to hold a press briefing on Friday afternoon where it's expected to announce the schedule for the assembly polls for Gujarat and Himachal Pradesh.
As per the information, the election commission will have its press briefing at 3 Pm at vigyan bhawan in New Delhi.
In Gujarat, Prime Minister Narendra Modi's home state, the BJP has been ruling for nearly 27 years. Bhupendra Rajnikant Patel is the incumbent chief minister of the state where Arvind Kejriwal's Aam Aadmi Party is now trying to emerge as a formidable challenger.
Amid hectic campaigns, the AAP and the BJP have sparred multiple times here with the controversy surrounding old videos of Gopal Italia being the latest flashpoint between the two rivals. He was briefly detained on Thursday amid protests outside the office of the National Commission for Women.
Meanwhile, Himachal Pradesh has witnessed several visits by PM Modi recently amid inauguration of development projects.
The Congress's Priyanka Gandhi Vadra would be sounding the poll bugle for the grand old party - which has been reviving its grassroot connection with the Bharat Jodo Yatra - in the state on Friday.
The BJP had retained four of five states where assembly elections were held. While it won Uttar Pradesh, Uttarakhand, Manipur and Goa for a consecutive term, the Aam Aadmi Party had secured a huge mandate in Punjab.
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