It was a big achievement for the BJP to win power in the state for a sixth term with more vote share, he said, asking party leaders not to be affected by the opposition's "disinformation campaign."
The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) in all likelihood will want Rupani and Patel to hold on to their posts until the 2019 general election.
It said that 18 (18 per cent) out of 99 BJP MLAs and 25 (32 per cent) out of 77 Congress MLAs have declared criminal cases pending against them.
The victory in Gujarat reinforces the trust people had in Modi's leadership, and the hopes of Modi's opponents have been dashed.
AAP candidates failed to make any impact on the electorate in the western state. Election data reveal that on one seat, its candidate won only 282 votes, and 299 in another.
The BJP bagged just seven more than the magic figure of 92, while the Congress and its allies lifted 80 seats, only 12 short of a simple majority.
As misplaced as Rahul Gandhi's claims of ‘moral victory’ may be, the narrow win for the BJP in Gujarat should come as a wake-up call for the Modi government ahead of Assembly elections in 2018.
Moily also termed as "unnecessary" Kapil Sibal's statement asking SC to defer hearing in the Ram Janmabhoomi case till after the 2019 general elections.
Congress president Rahul Gandhi on Tuesday said the Gujarat election results raise questions on Prime Minister Narendra Modi's credibility and the country is not listening to him.
Party sources said several TMC leaders were likely to join the BJP in the days to come and the ruling party would find it hard to keep its house in order.
Unlike its rule of more than two decades, the saffron party will be facing some serious challenges, something that it has already foreseen.
"The aspirations of our middle class are rising. We have to fulfill them," Prime Minister Narendra Modi said while addressing party workers at the BJP headquarter in New Delhi.
With the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) set to retain Gujarat for the sixth consecutive term, the gap between its vote share and that of the Congress has been continuously shrinking.
While BJP moves ahead to take its rule in Gujarat past 22 years, let’s take a look at some of the factors which seem to have helped the BJP manage to hold faith of Gujarat’s people:
An aggregate of all nine exit polls conducted in the poll-bound state predicts that the BJP will sweep the elections with a clear majority, claiming victory on 116 seats – one more than they won in 2012.
The Assembly polls in the coastal state is considered as a prestige battle for Prime Minister Narendra Modi and a litmus test for the newly-elected Congress president Rahul Gandhi.
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