Ahmedabad, Mar 31 : BJP’s prime ministerial nominee L K Advani is seeking re-election for the fifth time from Gujarat’s Gandhinagar constituency, which has been impacted in recent delimitation exercise.
Besides Gandhinagar, most of the 26 Lok Sabha constituencies in the state had been affected due to the delimitation.

Union Textiles Minister Shankersinh Vaghela, whose Kapadwanj seat got deleted, has been declared a Congress candidate from the newly created constituency, Panchmahals.

Ahmedabad city’s Ellisbridge assembly segment, which was a part of Gandhinagar, has now been included in the new constituency Ahmedabad West (SC).

While addressing a function in the city’s Navrangpura locality recently, Mr Advani expressed his disappointment over deletion of Ellisbridge, saying that the constituency had always given him highest lead in Gandhinagar, from where he was elected first in 1991, and then in 1998, 1999 and 2004.

However, Mr Advani, who did not contest in the 1996 election after his name figured in the Jain hawala case, was happy that Sanand, the new home of Tata’s Nano plant, and Kalol were added to his Gandhinagar constituency, from which Gandhinagar South was deleted.

Gandhinagar LS constituency, spread over Gandhinagar North, Kalol, Sanand, Ghatlodia, Vejalpur, Naranpura and Sabarmati segments, has a total of 15,43,708 electorate, including 7,50,665 female voters.
According to the election office, the total electorate in the state stood at 3,63,74,710, including 1,75,45,383 females.

Following delimitation, Ahmedabad, Kapadwanj, Mandvi and Dhandhuka LS seats stand deleted, while the new ones included Ahmedabad East, Ahmedabad West(SC), Bardoli and Navsari.

With this Gujarat’s total LS seat tally remained at 26 and assembly constituencies reached at 182.