BJP breaks all records in winning Gujarat for 7th time with 156 seats and 52.5% vote share

Gandhinagar: Bhartiya Janta Party (BJP) returned to power in Gujarat with a historic victory in the results announced on Thursday. Incumbent Gujarat Chief Minister Bhupendra Patel is set to take oath on December 12. The BJP won the highest number of seats in Gujarat’s history and recorded its seventh straight win.

The BJP has won 155 seats and is leading in 1 more of 182 assembly seats in Gujarat, the home state of Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Home Minister Amit Shah, smashing all previous records of electoral performance. BJP got a massive 52.50 per cent votes in Gujarat with Congress vote share declining to 27.28 per cent.

AAP made its maiden entry in the Gujarat assembly winning five seats and its leaders saw a lot of hope in the party getting 12.92 per cent vote share in the state where the BJP has been in power for almost 27 years.

Congress recorded its worst performance in Gujarat and is poised to win only 17 seats, partly due to AAP splitting the opposition vote.

The BJP not only improved its own record of 127 seats, made in 2002 with Narendra Modi as Chief Minister but surpassed the Congress’ best tally of 149 seats in the 1985 elections.

Prime Minister Narendra Modi said he was overcome with a lot of emotions seeing the phenomenal election results in Gujarat. He lauded the work of BJP workers in the party’s huge success.

“Thank you Gujarat. I am overcome with a lot of emotions seeing the phenomenal election results. People blessed politics of development and at the same time expressed a desire that they want this momentum to continue at a greater pace. I bow to Gujarat’s Jan Shakti,” PM Modi said in a tweet.

“To all hardworking @BJP4Gujarat Karyakartas I want to say – each of you is a champion! This historic win would never be possible without the exceptional hardwork of our Karyakartas, who are the real strength of our Party,” he added.

Celebrations began at the BJP office in Ahmedabad soon after it was clear that the party was on course to an overwhelming victory in the state.

Home Minister Amit Shah lauded the party workers in Gujarat saying they had worked tirelessly for the party’s success.
“I salute the people of Gujarat on this historic victory. Congratulations to the Chief Minister Bhupendra Patel, state party president CR Paatil and all the workers of BJP who worked tirelessly for achieving this grand victory achieved under the leadership of Prime Minister Narendra Modi and chairmanship of JP Nadda,” he said in a tweet.

Amit Shah said Gujarat has always created history. “In the last two decades, under the leadership of Modi ji, the BJP broke all the records of development in Gujarat and today the people of Gujarat have blessed the BJP and broken all the records of victory. This is a victory of the unwavering faith of the public in the development model of PM Modi,” he said.

Shah also took a veiled dig at the Opposition and said that the people have rejected those who resorted to appeasement politics and offered ‘revdis’ to people. “Gujarat has rejected those who make empty promises, distribute revdies and do appeasement politics, and has given a mandate to PM Modi’s BJP which has ensured the development and public welfare. This massive victory has shown that every section, be it women, youth or farmers, all are wholeheartedly with BJP,” he said.

BJP president JP Nadda congratulated Bhupendra Patel, party’s Gujarat chief CR Paatil and all the workers of state BJP for the party’s landslide victory in the state.

Bhupendra Patel said the people of Gujarat have made up their minds to further continue with the journey of development in Gujarat.
“We humbly accept the mandate of the people. Every worker of BJP is committed to public service,” he said.

Independents won three seats in Gujarat and one seat went to the Samajwadi Party.

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