Gujarat bypolls: No nomination filed on first two days

No nomination has been filed yet for the bypolls to the Vadodara Lok Sabha seat and nine Assembly segments in Gujarat, where voting is slated for next month.
The Election Commission (EC) yesterday issued a notification inviting candidates to file their nomination papers for the upcoming by-elections.
However, not a single form has been received in the last two days (Aug 20-21), the office of Gujarat Chief Electoral Officer said in a release here this evening.
The Vadodara seat has been vacated by Prime Minister Narendra Modi, who decided to retain Varanasi, the other constituency from where he had been elected to the Lok Sabha.

The bypoll-bound Assembly seats are Anand, Limkheda, Deesa, Maninagar, Khambhalia, Tankara, Matar, Talaja and Mangrol. The bypolls had been necessitated as BJP MLAs vacated their seats on getting elected to Lok Sabha.
The last date for accepting the forms is August 27, while the voting will take place on September 13.