Indian PM Modi’s Hindu nationalist party keeps its 27-year control of his home state of Gujarat, while Congress party wrested power from BJP in Himachal Pradesh state, winning 39 out of 68 state seat up for grabs
The next national elections in the country are due in 2024 when Modi, 72, is widely expected to run for a third term,
In its best-ever performance in the western state of around 60 million people, the BJP won at least 147 seats in Gujarat's 182-seat legislature, up from 99, and was expected to win another 9 once all votes were counted.Modi campaigned hard in Gujarat, the state where he was chief minister for 12 years before ascending to become prime minister in 2014, and which voted on December 1 and 5.
Modi was state premier in 2002 when around 1,000 people, most of them Muslims, were killed in one of the worst outbreaks of sectarian violence in post-independence India.READ MORE:Modi’s party remains popular in Gujarat despite rising inflation, unemployment and increasing violence and rhetoric against the minorities, particularly Muslims.
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