Hours after the first phase of the Gujarat assembly election concluded on December 1, hundreds of hoardings sprang up in Ahmedabad and other parts of the state. This was after the state saw a voter turnout of 63.14 percent in phase one.
The messages on the hoardings seemed benign enough, encouraging people to exercise their franchise. Except for a few put up by the Gujarat Garment Manufacturers Association, there was no indication as to who put up the posters. But the colour of the hoardings gave them away – saffron, the party colour of the Bharatiya Janata Party.
