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Gujarat Election Result 2022 Highlights: The votes for Gujarat Assembly elections have been counted by the Election Commission of India, which was held in two phases. The Bhartiya Janata Party (BJP) has crossed the required majority of at least 92 seats in the Gujarat Assembly elections and will form the government for record seventh time in a row.
BJP retained Gujarat by bagging 156 of the 182 Assembly seats, while the opposition Congress has won 17 seats and AAP got 5 seats. In 2017 elections, BJP had won 99 seats.
The party’s battle was spearheaded by Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Union Home Minister Amit Shah, who addressed dozens of public rallies and road shows.
With the ruling party witnessing a record tally in Gujarat, PM expressed he was overcome with a lot of emotions on 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," he said in a tweet, thanking the people of his home state.
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The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) on December 8retained Gujarat again for a record seventh term by bagging 156 of the 182 Assembly seats, while the opposition Congress has won 17 seats and AAP got 5 seats.
BJP, which has been ruling the state since 1995, had set a target of 150 seats and campaigned aggressively across 182 Assembly constituencies. The party’s battle was spearheaded by Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Union Home Minister Amit Shah, who addressed dozens of public rallies and road shows.
While addressing party workers at BJP headquarters in New Delhi, Narendra Modi said, "BJP has got the biggest mandate in the history of Gujarat. People have created a record in breaking records. When i was in Gujarat, I had told people that Narendra's record should be broken."
The enduring sway Prime Minister Narendra Modi has on the Gujarati consciousness has led the BJP to the best-ever tally for any party in the state assembly polls, reducing to insignificance people's perceived discontent with issues like inflation and local leadership.
In his barnstorming campaign across the state in which he addressed 31 rallies and led three road shows, Modi travelled through various regions of his home state, urging voters to make "Bhupendra break the records of Narendra", an exhortation for a higher tally for the Chief Minister Bhupendra Patel-led government than what he had got while helming the state for nearly 13 years. And it is evident that voters have listened to him. (PTI)
The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) on December 8 registered a historic victory, its seventh, in the Gujarat Assembly elections but lost to Congress in Himachal Pradesh polls.
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