"We welcome the Ahmadabad Court's judgement on Narendra Modi...We had expected the judgement," BJP President Rajnath Singh told reporters here.
"We were always confident that he is totally clean and today's ruling has proved it," Singh said.
"Narendra Modi is our Prime Ministerial candidate and there is no controversy surrounding him," he said.
In a major relief to Modi, a Metropolitan Court rejected the protest petition filed by Zakia Jafri, a riot victim, against the clean chit given to him and others by the Supreme Court-appointed Special Investigation Team in the post-Godhra communal violence.