Tea time
Polling agents at a booth in Narayanpura were cracking jokes and sharing tea together as there was poor turn out. Having realised that there was not even single vote in favour of Congress, it had withdrawn its polling agent last year. This year the same booth had an attraction -- a former home minister (Congress) sat there for some time as agent.

Young voters
Even though there were hardly any flags, posters, glaring loudspeakers, children and teenagers seemed to enjoy the poll-time. They played kabbadi on the party office mats at different pandals in night during the campaign period. On poll-day they thronged the booths and managed to cast votes and felt thrilled about it too.

Deposits to go
Nine were left in the fray. The six independents were Shashikant Patel (arrow), Salim Pathan (bat), Abdul Gani (aeroplane), Dinesh Vasava (hut), Bechubhai Vasava (axe) and Sayyed Mohammed Syed with a tree. God forbid it, deposits of all of them is likely to lost.

Morale down
Except Janata Dal workers, some of the Congress and the BJP men had complaints against their organisations. "Barring AICC treasurer Ahmed Patel not a single heavyweight came to boost our morale," said a local Congressman. The BJP workers also said the same and even termed Kashiram Rana as sthanik or 'local' neta".

Issues galore
It was an unusual contest. No candidate spoke of issues related to Gujarat or the constituency. National issues, corruption, failures, communalism and criminilisation of politics and society and charges and counter charges were raised. Need one specify more about each of them?