BJP supporters celebrate HISTORIC win in Gujarat - Pics

Gujarat: Bharatiya Janata Party workers on Thursday (December 8, 2022) assembled at the party's headquarters in Nashik in Maharashtra to celebrate its win in the Gujarat state polls. The party, which has been in power for close to three decades in the western state, is on course to win over 150 seats in the 182-member House. BJP workers assembled at Vasantsmruti, the party's office here, shouted slogans in support of Prime Minister Narendra Modi and burst crackers. The party, however, lost power in Himachal Pradesh, with the Congress set to form government there.

The BJP has already announced that Patel will retain the post of the chief minister. Patel got 2,12,480 votes, against 21,120 votes polled by his Congress rival Amiben Yagnik. AAP candidate Vijay Patel was in third place with 15,902 votes. Patidar-dominated Ghatlodia seat, which is part of the Gandhinagar Lok Sabha constituency, has given Gujarat two chief ministers -- Bhupendra Patel and Anandiben Patel. It is a stronghold of the BJP. In 2017, despite the Patidar quota agitation which made things difficult for the ruling party, Bhupendra Patel won the seat with a margin of 1.17 lakh votes. Ghatlodia, which has around 3.70 lakh registered voters, was carved out as an assembly constituency following delimitation in 2012. Earlier, it was a part of the Sarkhej constituency. In 2012, Anandiben Patel won the seat with a margin of more than 1.1 lakh.