Gujarat CM Bhupendra Patel submits resignation

Gujarat Chief Minister Bhupendra Patel on Friday submitted his resignation to Governor Acharya Devvrat after his party BJP registered a historic win in the State Assembly elections ahead of the formation of his new governmentPatel will take oath as chief minister again on December 12 BJP state president CR Paatil said earlier on Friday adding that Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Union Home Minister Amit Shah will attend the swearinginPatel visited the Raj Bhavan in Gandhinagar to tender his resignation after the Bharatiya Janata Party swept the Gujarat elections and won 156 of the total 182 seats here on ThursdayThe BJPs seventh consecutive Assembly poll win in Gujarat is its biggest since the founding of this state in 1960Also Read Biz speaks at the ballot boxIn the home state of Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Home Minister Amit Shah the BJP has smashed all previous records of electoral performanceCongress finished a distant second with 17 while the Aam Aadmi Party AAP the new electoral entrant in Gujarat won 5 seats and the Samajwadi Party SP won a lone seat and three Independent candidates too registered winsGujarat CM Bhupendra Patel too scripted history winning the Ghatlodia constituency by a record margin of about 192000 votes This constituency has given Gujarat two of its chief ministers Anandiben Patel and the current CMAAP CM face Isudan Gadhvi lost the Khambhaliya seat to BJP candidate Hardasbhai Bera by 19000 votes Gujarats MoS Home Harsh Sanghavi too won the Majura constituency with a margin of 116000BJP MLA Kishor Kanani won the Varachha seat of Surat defeating AAP candidate Alpesh Kathiriya while AAP Gujarat chief Gopal Italia also had to taste defeat against the BJPs Vinod MoradiyaDebutant from Jamnagar North constituency cricketer Ravindrasinh Jadejas wife Rivaba Jadeja also won her seat by 88119 votes Hardik Patel former leader of Patidar Anamat Andolan Saimiti PAAS who joined BJP ahead of the polls bagged 4964 per cent votes on course to winning the Viramgam constituencyFormer BJP MLA Dhavalsinh Zala who fought as an Independent this time defeated the ruling partys Bhikhiben Parmar by around 6000 votes Congress candidate from Vadgam Jignesh Mevani who was trailing during the early rounds of counting later won the seat by around 4000 votesCongress leader and former Leader of Opposition Arjun Modhwadia won from the Porbandar constituency defeating BJP candidate Babu Bokhiriya by over 8000 votes while Kandhal Jadeja who was denied a ticket by the NCP fought on a Samajwadi Party ticket to win He got the better of BJPs Dheliben OdedaraSignificantly BJP won the Morbi seat where the party had fielded Kantilal Amrutiya who saved lives and courted headlines as the hero of Morbi after the bridge collapseAmong the important seats that BJP won this time were Congress bastions Mahudha and Thasra of Kheda Borsad of Anand and Vyara These seats were held by Congress since Independence Mohan Konkani of the BJP bagged the prestigious Vyara seatThe BJP also won 24 out of 27 ST reserved seats in Gujarat an increase of 12 seats as compared to the last elections The tribals too voted for BJP in huge numbersIn the last Assembly elections in 2017 BJP won 99 seats Congress trailed close at 77 and NCP BTP and Independent candidates secured 1 2 and 3 seats respectivelyThis story has been sourced from a third party syndicated feed agencies Midday accepts no responsibility or liability for its dependability trustworthiness reliability and data of the text Midday managementmiddaycom reserves the sole right to alter delete or remove without notice the content in its absolute discretion for any reason whatsoever