Indian elections are a fertile ground some extraordinary stories, stories that surprise, elate and sometimes, disappoint. And, the current Gujarat election, which began today with voting being held for the first phase of its two-part polls, is no different.

Early in the morning, soon after the polls opened, reports came in of brides and bridegrooms choosing to exercise their franchisee before their big moment of the day.

However, the story that will likely take the cake from today's Gujarat voting is that out of the western Gujarat district of Morbi. A tiny village there has decided NOT to exercise its right to vote.

The reason is one of the most basic ones - BiPaSa, or, for those unfaimiliar with Indian election lingo, bijli, sadak, paani (electricity, roads, water).

Some thousand-odd voters of Morbi's Gajadi have decided to boycott this year's Gujarat Assembly election. The residents are upset over the lack of basic amenities in their village.

Among their chief complaints is lack of water and no proper roads in their village. The villagers are also upset over irregular supply of electricity, the three utilities making a troika that often forms the basis of most parties' poll promises.

Interestingly enough, the voters in Gajadi are not just upset over the lack of amenities but also because, they claim, nobody either from the Congress or the Bharatiya Janata Party visited the village to listen to their problems.

The village has a total of 1065 registered voters, 506 of whom are women. Officials from the Election Commission confirmed to India Today that nobody from the village had turned up to vote, at the time of writing this report.

Overall, Gujarat, where the BJP has been in power for over two decades, had seen a healthy turn out of voters by early afternoon in the first phase of election. At 1pm, the voter turnout was around 31 per cent.

Ironically, Morbi, the district where Gajadi is situated, had seen the second-highest turnout among the regions that went to the poll today.

Meanwhile, faulty Electronic Voting Machines (EVMs) too made the headline, with multiple reports coming in of the machines malfunctioning. While Election Commission suggested there was nothing to worry, reports in local press said voting times at certain polling booths had been extended to as late as 10 in the night.

This Gujarat village has decided to boycott today's election. Why? No BiPaSa

Some thousand-odd voters in a tiny village in Gujarat's Morbi have decided not to vote in the state's assembly election. Why? Because of the basic of most voter wishes: Bijli, Paani, Sadak (BiPaSa).