Prannoy Roy Analyses Gujarat Assembly Election Results: Live Blog

All India | | Updated: December 18, 2017 20:28 IST
Prannoy Roy Analyses Gujarat Assembly Election Results: Live Blog

The 2017 Gujarat election results will have major repercussions on national politics.

New Delhi:  Results of the closely-watched Gujarat elections came out today, bringing a decidedly lower margin of victory than last time. As most leads convert into wins, the BJP has crossed the 92 seats it needs for a majority in the 182-member Gujarat assembly, but is still struggling to make the psychological 100 mark. Many analysts have called the election a pivotal moment: a hugely important election not only for Gujarat but also for national politics. The win for the BJP was seen as reviving the momentum for Prime Minister Narendra Modi and party chief Amit Shah in the run up to the next Lok Sabha elections.


Follow NDTV's special coverage as Prannoy Roy and his team analyse the Gujarat election results:




Dec 18, 2017
20:28 (IST)
Journalist and author Nilanjan Mukhopadhyay says "The Congress did not have answers for the awkward questions BJP was raising"
 
Dec 18, 2017
20:26 (IST)
How phase 2 campaigning affected the result in Gujarat

Dec 18, 2017
20:21 (IST)
The Congress culture is of respecting the office of the PM, says Ashok Gehlot
  • We did damage control (after Mani Shankar Aiyar's comment against PM Modi)
  • In two to three days, we will conduct a post-mortem of our performance and then we will be able explain the results completely

Dec 18, 2017
20:19 (IST)
Congress leader Ashok Gehlot says the Gujarat elections has started the clock on the BJP's fortunes
  • I am happy the Congress campaigned with great dignity
  • It is for the first time that despite such a result, people are congratulating us
  • Rahul Gandhi talked of farmers, employment, youth. PM couldn't do so
  • The kind of politics and environment of intimidation and fear that PM Modi and Amit Shah are practicing affected the elections

Dec 18, 2017
20:16 (IST)
"Travelling in Gujarat, you really felt the overtly expressed anger of people in Saurashtra," says senior journalist Sagarika Ghose
 
Dec 18, 2017
20:13 (IST)
The BJP lost 13 seats in Saurashtra, while the Congress gained 15
Dec 18, 2017
20:13 (IST)
The narrative of this election is all about Saurashtra, says Prannoy Roy
Saurashtra has a high density of farmers (73 per cent) and Patels (55 per cent) and both these tended to go against the BJP

Dec 18, 2017
20:10 (IST)
Even though the Congress lost Gujarat, it was a result better than last time. In fact, this is the best performance by the Congress in Gujarat since 1985
Dec 18, 2017
20:08 (IST)
Prannoy Roy: Why is the BJP's win a setback, and why is going down considered to be going down fighting? We aim to find the answers

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