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BJP wins 4, leads in 114 in Gujarat

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Press Trust of India Ahmedabad
Last Updated : Jan 20 2013 | 6:58 AM IST

Modi trounced his nearest Congress rival Shweta Bhatt by a margin of 86,373 votes, while BJP also bagged Amraivadi, Mangrol and Karanj seats.

Main Opposition Congress was leading in 59 seats, while nominees of Keshubhai Patel's Gujarat Parivartan Party were ahead in two, state election office sources said.

Besides, the NCP, Janta Dal(U) and an independent are leading in one constituency each.

Celebrations have already begun across the state with BJP workers smearing each others face with gulal and beating drums in the streets of Ahmedabad and elsewhere.

State Congress president Arjun Modhwadia and Leader of Opposition Shaktisinh Gohil were trailing in Porbandar and Bhavnagar(rural) seats respectively, while Congress's Shankarisinh Vaghela, a former state Chief Minister and Union minister, is leading from Kapadvanj.

Keshubhai Patel, a former chief minister and Gujarat Parivartan Party president, who broke away from BJP months ahead of the elections, was leading from Visavadar.

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Another Modi confidante and minister Anandiben Patel was leading in Ghatlodia. Modi's right hand man Amit Shah, an accused in the Soharabuddin Sheikh fake encounter case was ahead of his rivals in Naranpura constituency.

However, ministers in the Modi government-- Dilip Sanghani (Amreli), Jaynarayan Vyas (Siddhpur) and Fakir Vaghela (Vadgam) were trailing.

All three Congress MPs in the fray are trailing.

Vitthal Radadia, MP from Porbandar, who was recently in news for brandishing a gun at a toll plaza after the attendant sought to see his identity card, was trailing from Dhoraji, Rajkot MP Kuverji Bavaila in Botad and Surendranagar MP Soma Patel in Limdi.

BJP's Gujarat unit President R C Faldu was leading from Jamnagar rural constituency.

BJP rebel candidate Kanu Kalsaria, who had formed Sadbhavna Manch, was trailing.

NCP candidate Kandhal Jadeja, son of late underworld don 'Godmother' Santokben Jadeja, was leading from Kutiyana seat. PTI

  

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First Published: Dec 20 2012 | 1:15 PM IST

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