Just a week ago India witnessed the Gujarat election result, BJP won a massive number of seats in history. Got the seats more than predicted by all the poll surveys. For the seventh time, people of Gujarat elected BJP and the son of Gujarat Narendra Modi. This spectacular result is not due to any appeasement politics, not by money, or caste power, its due to development, development and development only. This Gujarat election result also gave plenty of messages to other political parties as well as the BJP govt in other states too.
BJP won seats with margin of 1 lakh+ votes
Yes, 11 BJP candidates registered victory with more than 1 lakh margin votes, and more than 40 candidates won with a majority of 50,000 votes. The highest victory margin was scored by CM Bhupendra Bhai Patel with a hefty margin of1.92 lakh votes. This is also the first time in Gujarat’s electoral politics that such a big number of candidates won with such huge margins till.
People voted for development
PM Narendra Modi`s Gujarat `Model` and transparency in governance is the main reason for the BJP`s victory. from 2002 to 2014 Gujarat observed quantum jump in its growth. The driving force was the then chief minister Narendra Modi’s innovative measures and schemes. During his tenure mainly focused on major facts like ; Provided infrastructure to facilitate inflow of corporate investment, quick disposal of investment proposals with a single window, Increased Subsidies for corporates to setup their firms in the state and 24 hours of power supply. As a result today The Gujarat state GDP (GSDP) is projected to grow to US$280 billion in 2022-23. Gujarat contributes around 20 percent to India’s industrial production and merchandise exports and the state’s ports handle about 40 percent of India’s cargo. More than 30,000 food processing units, and 560 cold storage facilities, 45 dairy plants and fish processing units. During FY 2020, the state produced 20.343 million litres of milk daily.
Gujarat denied freebies and fake Hindutva
AAP led Kejriwal and congress tried to impress the people with promises like unemployment allowances, free electricity and water, But the people of Gujarat gave clear message to Congress and the AAP to learn the art of development politics. Arvind Kejriwal once said in his Kanpur rally that “Mera Ram kisi ki masjid todkar banaye Mandir mein nahi bas sakta" (his Lord Rama can’t live in a temple which is built after demolishing a mosque) But during Gujarat elections he promised to take every elderly of Gujarat on a pilgrimage to Ayodhya if his party is voted to power in the state in the Assembly election. During one of his Media bytes he also played another Hindutva card that he appealed to Prime Minister Narendra Modi to print images of Hindu deities Ganesh and Lakshmi on the Indian currency to “improve” India’s economy and for country’s “progress”. But in the end, all this did not work and the party didn’t perform well.
New Faces
Just before one year to the poll BJP Gujarat replaced its non-performing CM Vijay Rupani with a first time and inexperienced MLA Bhupendra Patel, And later it also changed BJP Gujarat president. following From page pramukhs to WhatsApp chiefs, BJP’s organisation functioned like an unyielding, finely tuned electoral machine, as always. Party denied tickets to senior leaders such as former chief minister Vijay Rupani and former deputy chief minister Nitin Pateland opted for new faces such as former Patidar quota leader Hardik Patel, cricketer Ravindra Jadeja’s wife Rivaba Jadeja and OBC leader Alpesh Thakor, among others. Of the 45 new candidates fielded by the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) in the Gujarat Assembly elections by dropping the sitting MLAs, all but two sailed through. At the earlier this year PM Modi At the BJP parliamentary party meeting that “Family politics won’t be allowed in the party. Dynastic politics in other parties has to be fought. So if anyone’s kin was denied a ticket, I take responsibility," .
Modi`s Campaign
With 31 rallies and two major road shows in Ahmedabad and Surat, leaving nothing to chance in his home state which is a prestige issue for his party. The 50-km roadshow done by Modi in Ahmedabad, which the party described as the longest-ever and claimed over 10 lakh people participated in it over four hours to catch a glimpse of the PM Modi. The landslide victory of BJP in Gujarat was not achieved because of Modi’s five-day campaign and four-hour road show. The Prime Minister had begun preparations for Gujarat five years ago, when BJP won only 99 seats in 2017. In his poll campaign, Modi spoke of Gujarati asmita, and in the span of a month, he launched a large number of projects, captivating voters. PM Modi went full throttle in his campaign, covering each region of Gujarat.