The five assembly constituencies -- Vijapur, Porbandar, Manavadar, Khambhat and Vaghodia - fell vacant after sitting MLAs resigned between December 2023 and March 2024 and subsequently joined BJP
With this, the party has announced the names of candidates for all 26 constituencies where elections are scheduled to be held in a single phase on May 7
There were four vacant Rajya Sabha seats in the state and as many candidates, all of the ruling BJP, had filed their nomination papers
Shivakumar charged that some applications of the BJP candidates, for instance in Saundatti Yellamma constituency, are defective but CMO "directly called the officer and directed him to make changes"
Patel's name was declared as the leader of the legislative party unanimously at the meeting held at the party's state headquarters
The BJP registered a historic victory in Gujarat by clinching 156 seats in the 182-member House on Thursday, much higher than its tally of 99 seats in 2017
Noting how BJP has not lost a Gujarat assembly election since 1995, Japan's Nikkei Asia attributed this win to PM Modi's popularity in the state
The BJP has done extremely well in the Patidar-dominated constituencies of the state, winning almost every seat that has significant Patel population
The Arvind Kejriwal-led outfit contested 181 out of the total 182 Assembly seats in Gujarat, but end up winning just five seats, securing about 13% vote share
In Gujarat, the number of seats won on smaller margins had reduced
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Patel's work was hyper-local - which left leaders like Narendra Modi and Amit Shah to emphasise how the BJP had managed to propel India to the centre stage globally
Maharashtra Dy CM Fadnavis said the resounding victory of the Bharatiya Janata Party in the Gujarat Assembly polls underlined the people's faith in Prime Minister Narendra Modi's leadership
The BJP's victory in the Gujarat assembly polls is a testament to Prime Minister Narendra Modi's politics of development, party president JP Nadda said on Thursday as he mocked the Aam Aadmi Party
The Aam Adami Party has made an 'impressive entry' into the BJP's bastion of Gujarat, giving a 'tough fight' to the ruling outfit in the just concluded polls, state AAP president Gopal Italia said
P< Modi asserted the results of two state assembly elections and several bypolls highlight people's support to the BJP's vision and commitment to development rising above social "faultlines"
Ruling Trinamool Congress in West Bengal on Thursday asserted that the BJP's landslide victory in Gujarat assembly elections will not have any impact on the 2024 Lok Sabha polls in the eastern state
Modi also lauded party workers in the state, saying each of them is a champion
AAP national convener Arvind Kejriwal on Thursday thanked the people of Gujarat for helping his party breach the BJP's Gujarat "fortress", and hoped to win the state in next elections
BJP candidate Mohan Konkani wrested the Scheduled Tribe (ST) seat of Vyara in Tapi district of Gujarat by defeating four-time Congress MLA Punabhai Gamit, who was pushed to the third position