BJP kisses its victory cup for past 22 years every one of us has a question that how are they doing it? Days after retaining Gujarat for a sixth straight term in the 2017 Legislative Assembly Elections, the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) on Friday managed to touch the 100-seat mark, with some help.
The incumbent party had won 99 seats in the Gujarat elections, while the Congress and its allies had secured 77 seats in the 182-member Assembly. Others had won six seats.
However, today, the BJP secured the 100-seat mark in the Assembly after an Independent MLA declared his “unconditional support” to the BJP.
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Ratansinh Rathod, an MLA from central Gujarat, had contested as an independent after he failed to secure a ticket from the Congress and was subsequently expelled from the party.
The BJP had targeted 150-plus seats in the Gujarat Assembly in 2017 elections but it even failed to touch the three-digit mark.
In the 182-member Gujarat Assembly, a party requires 92 seats to secure majority and form government.
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In the outgoing Assembly, the BJP has 116 members while the Congress has 60.
In the results declared on Monday, the BJP also won in Himachal Pradesh securing 44 out of 60 seats.
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