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India’s ruling Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) scored a landslide election win in Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s house state of Gujarat on Thursday, in a lift for the chief and his Hindu-nationalist get together forward of the 2024 common election.
The BJP took 156 of 182 complete seats within the Gujarat state meeting following voting earlier this month, marking the get together’s best-ever efficiency within the state, a longtime BJP stronghold.
The essential opposition Indian National Congress gained 17 seats, whereas the Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) took 5.
The election – and the margin of victory – within the state of greater than 60 million has been carefully watched as a take a look at of Modi’s reputation forward of India’s subsequent common election, when he’s anticipated to hunt a 3rd time period.
In a remark posted to Twitter Thursday night, the Prime Minister thanked the folks of Gujarat and mentioned he was “overcome with a lot of emotions” to see the outcomes.
“People blessed politics of development and at the same time expressed a desire that they want this momentum to continue at a greater pace,” Modi wrote.
In one other state election within the northern area of Himachal Pradesh, Congress gained 40 out of the 68 complete meeting seats and can now kind a authorities. The BJP gained 25 seats and three went to impartial candidates, with outcomes from the state of round 6 million additionally introduced Thursday.
Despite what critics say are financial headwinds and rising non secular intolerance in India beneath Modi, he maintains sturdy assist among the many nation’s Hindu majority.
He campaigned extensively within the lead-up to the election in Gujarat, the place the BJP has dominated for greater than 1 / 4 century. Modi led the state as chief minister for greater than a decade earlier than coming to energy as Prime Minister in 2014.
Modi was chief minister throughout 2002 Hindu-Muslim riots within the state, which led to the deaths of greater than 1,000 folks, most of them Muslims.