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| BJP's big Gujarat win; |
| BJP's big Gujarat win; Narendra Modi to get third term as chief minister
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| INDIA
, 20-December-2012
4:23:42 AM |
| : A huge stage with a massive cut-out is being erected at the BJP office to welcome man of the moment Narendra Modi, who will not only be the Chief Minister of Gujarat for a third straight term, but also with a bigger mandate. Mr Modi now looks set to win 123 of Gujarat's 182 assembly seats, six more than his 2007 tally of 117 seats.
He needed only 92 of those seats to form government. But a big winning margin was important for Mr Modi; it will give legitimacy to his claim to a bigger role at the national stage. At the party office in Ahmedabad, his celebrating supporters seem clear where he is headed next. They held up posters that said, "This is the trailer, watch the film in 2014" and "CM in 2012, PM in 2014" and even "Hit & Fit for PM."
Many in the BJP have been seeking that bigger role for Mr Modi and there has been much talk of him being projected as the party's candidate for Prime Minister in the 2014 general elections. The leadership in Delhi was less ready to talk about that just yet. Cheering the Gujarat win senior BJP leader Ravi Shankar Prasad would only say, "Modi bhai has always been an important leader in the BJP... We are not a dynastic party which is led by a Yuvaraj. We function in a pure democratic fashion." And party president Mr Gadkari said emphatically, "Gujarat will continue to flourish under the leadership of Narendra Modi."
Mr Modi is not universally acceptable to allied parties like the Janata Dal (United). As results rolled in to make it clear that Mr Modi would win big again in Gujarat, JD(U) leader Ali Anwar said, "Gujarat is not the full country. Muslims in Gujarat may have voted out of fear. We have made our stand clear, the JD(U) wants a man of credentials." JD(U) sources in Bihar pointed out that the BJP had lost Himachal Pradesh today despite Mr Modi campaiging extensively there; if he had universal appeal, why did his presence not help the BJP in Himachal, they asked.
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