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The results of the Gujarat assembly elections are out. This time the Bharatiya Janata Party has created a new record. In Gujarat, which has 182 assembly seats, 156 BJP candidates won the elections. The Congress suffered the most. The Congress came straight down to 17 from 77 seats. Means Congress had to bear the loss of 60 seats. At the same time, this time only five candidates of the Aam Aadmi Party, which claimed to form the government, could win the elections. The SP candidate won one seat, while the remaining three seats were won by independent candidates.
BJP’s Mohanbhai Dhedabhai Konkani defeated AAP’s Bipin Chandra Khushalbhai Chowdhary by 22,120 votes in Vyara assembly seat in Tapi district. BJP candidate got 69,633 votes while Congress got 47,513 votes here. Congress remained at number three. Its candidate Punabhai Dhedabhai Gamit got 45,904 votes. The deposits of four including the BSP candidate were forfeited. NOTA got 3,779 votes here.
Congress got victory in 2017
The Congress had won the Vyara seat in the 2017 assembly elections. In this election, the Congress had made Punabhai Dhedabhai Gamit its candidate from this seat. Gambit defeated BJP’s Arvind Bhai Chowdhary by a margin of 24,000 votes. A total of eight candidates were in the fray here. Apart from these two, the deposits of the remaining six candidates were forfeited.
BJP has won this seat for the first time
The BJP had not won the Vyara seat in any assembly election since its inception in 1980 till 2017. The 2022 election is the first election in which the party has registered a victory. Congress candidates have won here 12 times out of the total 15 elections held so far, including the 2004 by-election. Independent candidates were successful in winning twice. At the same time, this time BJP has registered its only victory.
Four time MLA Punabhai got defeated
Congress candidate Punabhai Gamit stood third in this election. Gambit had earlier won the Vyara seat for four consecutive terms on a Congress ticket. Gambit had hoisted the Congress flag here in the elections of 2004, 2007, 2012 and 2017.