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Gujarat set for vote count, BJP confident
Wednesday December 19, 2012 03:43:31 PM,
IANS
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Ahmedabad:
Gujarat's ruling BJP was supremely confident ahead of Thursday's
vote count following elections which exit polls say will see Chief
Minister Narendra Modi get another five-year term.
Gujarat recorded its highest voter turnout of 71.3 percent in the
two-round elections to pick a new 182-seat assembly. The elections
ended Monday.
BJP leader Jaynarayan Vyas asserted that the party would win the
electoral battle with impressive margins.
"We will win on the basis of good governance, transparency and
progress," Vyas told IANS.
He said if the BJP wins, it would be the first time in Gujarat's
history that a chief minister would have won three successive
elections.
Asked if Modi -- who has been chief minister since 2001 -- will
have a national role if the party wins, Vyas said it was for Modi
and the BJP to decide.
Although most exit polls have predicted a sweeping win for Modi,
who is widely seen as a more powerful entity than the BJP in
Gujarat, the Congress remains hopeful.
"We have promised to address concerns of people about water,
electricity and housing," state Congress spokesman Amee Yajnik
said.
The millions of votes polled in Gujarat will be counted across the
state Thursday from 8. a.m. under heavy security.
Though other BJP leaders also campaigned in the state, Modi
remained the biggest crowd-puller.
Pitted against him were Congress president Sonia Gandhi and her
son and party general secretary Rahul Gandhi.
Prime Minister Manmohan Singh also campaigned in the state.
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