That the V factor is common in the 2 Lok Sabha constituencies--Vadodara and Varanasi--from where Modi emerged victorious is a known fact but in another coincidence the party winning the Valsad seat in Gujarat forms the government at the Centre if one went by records in the past two decades.
BJP candidate K C Patel beat Congress party's two-time MP Kishan Patel by a margin of 2,08,412 votes from Valsad, which is considered as the 'luckiest' seat in the state.
It has remained a coincidence that a political party which wins Valsad seat forms government at the Centre.
Valsad, one of the 26 seats of Gujarat, due to this trend is considered auspicious for the political parties as local leaders see it as the "gateway" to Delhi.
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The belief of the political parties has been validated by the past records, which indicate that Atal Bihari Vajpayee led BJP won the seat for the first time in 1996 which helped the party form a government though for 13 days.
However in 2004, Congress candidate Kishan Patel clinched the seat from BJP and his party formed a coalition government at the Centre.
Again in 2009, Congress repeated Kishan Patel, who won by getting 7,169 more votes than BJP's D C Patel.
The trend has been repeated again, as BJP candidate today won the seat and the saffron party is set for a landslide victory in polls.