The BJP is eyeing a file seventh straight time period in Gujarat because the stage is ready for counting of votes on Thursday for the Assembly elections within the two states. The counting of votes for Gujarat meeting elections will begin at 8am with postal ballots to be taken up first. Exit polls have predicted an enormous majority for the Bharatiya Janata Party(BJP) in Gujarat and if these projections are any indication the saffron celebration is all set to retain energy within the residence state of Prime Minister Narendra Modi and residential minister Amit Shah for the seventh consecutive time period. The BJP, which gained 99 seats within the 2017 polls, is projected to win within the vary of 117-151 seats in a House of 182 and the Congress between 16 and 51 seats. It can be upbeat about the opportunity of the AAP consuming into Congress votes, which may very well be moreover helpful for the saffron celebration. The greatest exhibiting for the BJP in Gujarat got here in 2002 when the celebration had gained 127 seats within the 182-member state meeting. The ballot consequence will decide if the Aam Aadmi Party(AAP) will get an opportunity to determine itself as a pan-national celebration and a challenger to the BJP on the nationwide stage additionally. For the Congress, its position as the primary challenger to the BJP is at stake and Thursday’s outcomes will present if the celebration’s ‘silent marketing campaign’ has reduce ice with folks. Top leaders of the celebration, which was projected to bag between 16 and 51 seats, had been busy with Rahul Gandhi’s Bharat Jodo Yatra. The Congress bagged 77 seats in 2017. Stay with TOI for all updatesRead Less