Prime Minister Narendra Modi will lead his party’s celebrations this evening at its Delhi headquarters at 6 pm. The BJP appears to have rung up its best-ever result in Gujarat, where the PM held more than 30 rallies in the final few weeks of his party’s campaign. Leads by 10 am showed the BJP headed for 150 seats.
That is a record result not just for the BJP but for the state; it bests the earlier landmark of 1985 when the Congress, led by Madhavsinh Solanki, won 149 seats.
he BJP has not lost Gujarat since 1995. PM Modi was Chief Minister for 13 years before getting elected to the country’s top job in 2014. In the last state election, it won 99 seats. Till today, its best result in Gujarat was when it won 127 seats in 2002.
PM Modi remains widely popular, partly due to economic growth and also because of his strong base among Hindu voters, despite critics pointing to rising inflation, unemployment and growing religious polarisation.
The party’s seventh consecutive win in Gujarat has shattered talk of a latent anti-incumbency .
