PHOTOS | Assembly elections results: Celebrations fill the air as BJP sweeps Gujarat

Prime Minister Narendra Modi's Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) appears headed for a record victory in Gujarat as trends available after five rounds of voting showed the party was leading in 156 of the state's 182 assembly seats that went to polls earlier this month.

Updated on:

08 Dec 2022, 2:52 pm

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Gujarat Chief Minister Bhupendra Patel, third left, and Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) state President C R Patil, second right, along with other leaders celebrate lead for the party in Gujarat state elections in Gandhinagar. (Photo | AP)

BJP supporters celebrating the victory in the Gujarat assembly election at the BJP headquarters in New Delhi. (Photo | Parveen Negi, EPS)

Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) supporters celebrate lead for the party in Gujarat state elections in Gandhinagar. (Photo | AP)

Bharatiya Janata party (BJP) supporters celebrate early leads for the party as vote counting of Gujarat state elections is underway in Gandhinagar, India. (Photo | AP)

If the trends continued through the day, the BJP would not only beat its best showing till date --- 127 seats in 2002 --- but also surpass the all-time record set by the Congress party in 1985, when it won 149 seats under the leadership of late Madhavsinh Solanki. (Photo | PTI)

In winning for a seventh term, the party would also equal the Left Front's feat in West Bengal. The BJP has not lost an election in Gujarat since 1995. (Photo | PTI)

Although the Modi government is struggling with rising inflation, slowing growth and joblessness, but the economic troubles appeared to have had no impact on BJP's popularity in Gujarat. (Photo | PTI)

While the Congress was not expected to replicate its creditable performance of the last assembly elections in 2017, the trends showed the party's electoral prospects in the state had been hurt by the AAP more than feared. (Photo | PTI)