AHMEDABAD: BJP's Pankajbhai Desai from Nadiad leading.


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- Congress is leading on two seats


Nadiad in Kheda district is one of the 182 constituencies in the state.


In 2012 assembly polls, BJP candidate Pankajkumar Vinubhai Desai won the seat with 75335 votes.


Gujarat recorded an estimated 68.70 percent voter turnout in the second and final phase of polling for 93 Assembly seats.


68 percent polling was recorded on December 9 in the first phase of polls in 89 Assembly seats in Gujarat.


Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Congress president-elect Rahul Gandhi are locked in a bitter, high-stakes political battle after a 22-year BJP reign.


The election in Modi's home state is crucial for the Congress and the BJP ahead of the 2019 Lok Sabha polls and is seen as a prestige battle for the prime minister, who was the chief minister of Gujarat from 2001 to 2014, and a litmus test for the opposition party's heir-apparent Rahul Gandhi.