BJP wins Surat West seat, Modi congratulates Modi, Chouhan, Vasundhara
December 08, 2013
Ahmedabad, 8 December 2013
As expected, city BJP president and Surat(west) assembly by-poll candidate Purnesh Modi has been victorious on Surat(West) assembly poll with margin of 66,274 votes. Rival Congress candidate has got 19,755 votes. 2307 votes went to NOTA. Counting is over at Gandhi engineering college and this is final result. Surat West seat was earlier occupied by late MLA of BJP.
On Twitter, Gujarat Chief Minister Shri Narendra Modi congratulated Purnesh Modi for his victory. Modi said, “Congrats to Shri Purnesh Modi & BJP Karyakartas for grand victory in Surat West bye-election. Thanks to voters of Surat.”
Modi also spoke to Vasundhara Raje for party’s Rajasthan victory and Shivrajsinh Chouhan for party’s Madhya Pradesh victory.
Modi to leave for Delhi
Chief Minister and BJP’s prime ministerial candidate Shri Narendra Modi will leave for Delhi. He will attend BJP’s parliamentary board meeting there.
Vijay Rupani fielded to give reaction
BJP leader Vijaybhai Rupani has been fielded to give reaction to media persons/TV channels on BJP’s performance in assembly elections of other states.
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