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It is yet another election and yet another saffron surge. The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) seems to have exceeded expectations in the Gujarat Assembly Elections 2022.
The BJP has set a record in the state and has won 156 seats. The state has 182 Assembly seats and the majority mark is 92.
Union Home Minister and BJP heavyweight Amit Shah is more than pleased. On Thursday morning, he set a 140-seat target. His party has zoomed past that.
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Congress candidate Geniben Thakor was on course to retain the Vav assembly seat in Gujarat’s Banaskantha district on Thursday.
After 24 rounds of counting of votes, Thakor bagged 100652 votes against BJP’s Swarupji Thakor who polled 85415 votes, a difference of 15237 votes.
In the 2017 elections, Geniben defeated Shankar Chaudhary, chairman of Banas Dairy, Asia’s largest dairy cooperative. This propelled her as an influential leader of Thakor community in the north-Gujarat.
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Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) candidate Yogesh Patel on Thursday wrested the Anand Assembly constituency in Gujarat from the Congress with a comfortable margin of 41,623 votes.
He defeated sitting Congress MLA Kanti Sodha Parmar in Anand, known for the world famous Amul dairy brand.
The Congress and the BJP were locked in a neck-and-neck fight in initial rounds of counting, but in the end the saffron outfit emerged victorious with a comfortable vote gap.
In 2017, the Opposition Congress had clinched the seat after a gap of 25 years. Parmar had bagged the Assembly segment five years ago by a little over 5,000 votes after three failed attempts.
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Union Home Minister Amit Shah on Thursday expressed gratitude to the people of Gujarat as the BJP inches closer to a historic victory in the state, and said that the mandate displays the “wholehearted” support of every section of society to the party.
The BJP has won 37 seats so far, according to the data shared by the Election Commission till 2.45 pm, and the party is leading on 119 seats.
Thanking the party workers and top leadership of the party, Shah said that they worked tirelessly for the grand victory.
“I salute the people of Gujarat on this historic victory. Congratulations to the Chief Minister @Bhupendrapbjp ji, State President @CRPaatil ji and all the workers of @BJP4Gujarat who worked tirelessly for achieving this grand victory achieved under the leadership of the Prime Minister @narendramodi ji and under the chairmanship of @JPNadda ji,” he tweeted, roughly translated from Hindi.
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The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) on Thursday crossed the majority mark in Gujarat by bagging 93 of 107 Assembly seats whose results have been declared so far and appeared on track for a historic victory as it led in 64 other constituencies.
In the 182-member state Assembly, the simple majority mark is 92.
The Congress, on the other hand, was poised for its worst-ever performance in the state as it has won on nine seats and was leading on just eight others.
New entrant Aam Aadmi party (AAP) has won four Assembly seats so far and was leading on one.
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Amid the counting of the results for the Gujarat assembly elections, Congress’ Gujarat in-charge Raghu Sharma tendered his resignation to the Indian National Congress president Mallikarjun Kharge on Thursday.
In his resignation letter, Sharma wrote, “I take moral responsibility for the Congress party’s unexpected defeat in the assembly elections”.
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The BJP is poised to break all records of electoral performance in Gujarat, the home state of Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Home Minister Amit Shah, and is set to get the highest number of seats won by a political party in the state’s history.
According to the latest information from the Election Commission, BJP is poised to win 158 seats in the 182-member Gujarat assembly having already won 79 seats and leading on 79 seats. Aam Aadmi Party has made its entry in the state assembly having won two seats and leading on two more. The party has increased its vote percentage to 12.87 per cent in an indication of its growing presence in the state.
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Surprises won’t cease. Like the Bharatiya Janata Party, whose victory march shows no sign of pause. In an election that many forecast would see Arvind Kejriwal’s Aam Aadmi Party snatch the Gujarat crown from the head of the saffron outfit or at least stun it, Modi power has prevailed again.
And how. Everything has crumbled under the Bharatiya Janata juggernaut: the new Opposition, the old Opposition, the cliched themes of anti-incumbency and voter apathy, it’s all gone, wiped out.
Gujarat, as Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s home state and the one place his opponents would love to see him fall, is in seventh saffron heaven with the highest seat count yet for the BJP. If Gujarat was where Modi would be checked in the run to the big fight of 2024, it didn’t happen.
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The Gujarat elections have thrown up yet another historic victory for the BJP. PM Modi’s popularity is at an all-time high for he is the one to have delivered his home state to his party once more. The Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) have broken ground in another state where they were hitherto non-existent. These are the most obvious takeaways of the Gujarat Assembly polls 2022.
But this Gujarat election must also be considered to extrapolate the trajectory of Indian politics in the coming future.
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Isudan Gadhvi, the Aam Aadmi Party’s CM face in Gujarat, lost in the Assembly election from Khambhalia on Thursday by more than 18,000 votes as his BJP rival came back from behind to clinch the seat.
Gadhvi was leading at the end of the fourth round over Congress’s incumbent MLA Vikram Madam, while the BJP’s Mulubhai Bera was trailing in the third place.
But Bera surpassed his rivals in the later rounds of vote counting.
Khambhalia emerged as one of the high-profile seats in the Gujarat Assembly elections after the AAP fielded Gadhvi, its CM face, from this constituency in the Saurashtra region.
A former TV news anchor, Gadhvi was born and brought up in Khambhalia. But social equations in this Ahir-dominated seat probably did not favour him as his own Gadhvi community is numerically not significant in the area.
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