New Delhi
CNN
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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 spice up for the chief and his Hindu-nationalist celebration forward of the 2024 normal election.
The BJP took 156 of 182 overall seats within the Gujarat state meeting following vote casting previous this month, marking the celebration’s best-ever efficiency within the state, an established BJP stronghold.
The primary opposition Indian National Congress gained 17 seats, whilst 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 normal 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 used to be “overcome with a lot of emotions” to look the consequences.
“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 any other state election within the northern area of Himachal Pradesh, Congress gained 40 out of the 68 overall meeting seats and can now shape a central authority. The BJP gained 25 seats and 3 went to impartial applicants, with effects from the state of round 6 million additionally introduced Thursday.
Despite what critics say are financial headwinds and rising spiritual intolerance in India beneath Modi, he maintains robust give a boost to a number of the nation’s Hindu majority.
He campaigned widely 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 leader minister for greater than a decade earlier than coming to energy as Prime Minister in 2014.
Modi used to be leader minister all the way through 2002 Hindu-Muslim riots within the state, which resulted in the deaths of greater than 1,000 folks, maximum of them Muslims.
