“GPP cost Congress nine seats in Gujarat”

"GPP cost Congress nine seats in Gujarat"


Ahmedabad, 26 December 2012

Congress general secretary in charge of Gujarat Mohan Prakash today in Delhi told reporters that the Congress lost nine seats in the Gujarat assembly polls due to Keshubhai Patel’s Gujarat Parivartan Party (GPP). The seats are Mandvi (by 8,506 votes), Bechraji (by 6,456 votes) Rajkot Rural (by 11,466 votes), Kalavad (by 6,119 votes), Junagadh (by 13796 votes), Keshod (by 7,937 votes), Savarkundla (by 2,384 votes), Gadhada (by 10,342 votes) and Fatehpura (by 6,264).

Prakash attributed the defeats to the delimitation of constituencies and local caste equations.