Vijay Rupani, the Chief Minister since August last year, was behind his Congress rival Indranil Rajguru in Rajkot West earlier. Gujarat Chief Minister Vijay Rupani was trailing on Monday as votes were counted in the state assembly election previously. Rupani, Chief Minister since August last year, was behind his Congress rival Indranil Rajguru in Rajkot West.
Vijay Rupani is the first Chief Minister from when Narendra Modi to face elections in Gujarat. Rajkot West is a fame seat for the BJP. Prime Minister Narendra Modi struck the first-ever election of his life from this constituency and won. Rajkot is the financial nerve-center of the Saurashtra region, where the Congress is seen to have made big gains.
There are 75,000 Patidar votes in the constituency; the community, which is in a hostile way campaigning for quota in government jobs and education, has been upset with the BJP and it is the biggest face Hardik Patel who is supporting the Congress. Elections for the 182-seat Gujarat assembly were held on December 9 and 14, after a neck to neck campaign in which PM Modi and Congress president Rahul Gandhi traded cutting remark.
