Vadodara: BJP has delivered the knockout punch to Congress in Narendra Modi's home state of Gujarat. The BJP has won all the 26 Lok Sabha seats in the state by a huge margin. Congress had won 9 seats in Gujarat in the 2009 elections.
While BJP has become the first party to form government on its own after 1984 elections, its prime ministerial candidate Narendra Modi won from Vadodara by a landslide of over 5.7 lakh votes. He narrowly missed the record margin which belongs to Anil Basu, who had won from Arambagh in West Bengal during the 2004 elections with a margin 5,92,502 votes.
Congress's had fielded its senior leader Madhusudan Mistry against Modi in Vadodara.
BJP patriarch LK Advani who 'reluctantly' gave up his claim over the PM candidate won the Gandhinagar seat by over 2 lakh votes margin.
Congress's Anand MP Bharatsinh Madhavsinh lost to BJP's Dilip Patel, while senior Congress leader and former chief minister Shanker Sinh Vaghela also failed to fight the Modi wave in Sabarkantha.
Gujarat Chief Minister Modi will would vacate his post to take up the prime minister's post by next week.
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