Ahmedabad: Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) veteran leader L K Advani heaped praise on Prime Minister Narendra Modi and expressed confidence that party will win the state Municipal Co-operation elections just like the 2014 Lok Sabha elections.
"I am happy that Narendra Modi is working as the Prime Minister of the country. I am confident that the BJP will win the local body elections in the same way as we won in the 2014 General Assembly Elections," said Advani after casting his vote in the local body elections here in Ahmedabad.
Voting is underway for the 1st phase of elections for local bodies in Gujarat , the second phase will be held on November 29.
Six municipal corporations in Gujarat - Ahmedabad, Surat, Rajkot, Vadodara, Jamnagar and Bhavnagar - currently under BJP rule, are seeking a fresh mandate from over 95.9 lakh urban voters.
This would be the first electoral test of the BJP in the post-Modi era and after the Patidar agitation for reservation. Besides this election will be a litmus test for Chief Minister Anandiben Patel
Four veteran leaders, including L K Advani and Murli Manohar Joshi, had issued a stinging statement that the party was being 'forced to kow-tow to a handful, its 'consensual character has been destroyed, and it has been 'emasculated' in the last year.
