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Ahmed Patel said the Congress could have won seven or eight more seats in the Gujarat assembly elections if it had been a little more careful.

Although Himachal has indeed got its two engines, the driver has been eased out. Dhumal lost by more than 3000 votes to his one-time protege and now arch-rival Rajinder Rana, who contested from Sujanpur near Dhumal's homebase Hamirpur.

An embarrassed BJP MP Sanjay Kakade said he had not factored in the impact of Prime Minister Narendra Modi's "charisma" while making the pronouncement.

During the high-octane Assembly poll campaign in Gujarat, the BJP had its best chance to win the two seats but failed yet again to halt the Congress’s victory.

The Patidar Anamant Andolan Samiti (PAAS) convener, who backed the Congress in the polls, said the party would have won had the BJP not "indulged in cheating".

Terming the win as “epic”, he said, “The new Congress president has proved to be lucky for BJP instead. Congress had questioned the development done by BJP in Gujarat and used inappropriate language for which they have got the reply in Gujarat and Himacha...

As the Congress led by Rahul Gandhi inched towards 80 seats, Siddaramaiah had a smile on his face. He told the party leaders and workers around him that they must win Karnataka once again as the ‘Modi Magic’ is on the wane in his home state.

Majura (GEN) is a State Assembly/Vidhan Sabha constituency in the Surat district and South Gujarat region of Gujarat and is a part of the Navsari Parliamentary/Lok Sabha constituency.

Surat North (GEN) is a State Assembly/Vidhan Sabha constituency in the Surat district and South Gujarat region of Gujarat and is a part of the Surat Parliamentary/Lok Sabha constituency.

Chhota Udaipur (ST) is a State Assembly/Vidhan Sabha constituency in the Vadodara district and Central Gujarat region of Gujarat and is a part of the Chhota Udaipur (ST) Parliamentary/Lok Sabha constituency.

Mandi (GEN) is a State Assembly/Vidhan Sabha constituency in the Mandi district and Upper Himachal region of and is a part of the Mandi Parliamentary/Lok Sabha constituency.

Gehlot's trademark stamp on Congress' Gujarat strategy was evident in the way the party attempted to build caste alliances as an antidote to Hindutva politics.

The election of 2017 has been significant since it was for the first time Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s ‘Gujarat model’ of growth came under such terse criticism in the PM’s home state.

Very few experts may have foreseen that the most powerful political figure in this country — Narendra Modi by the end of his campaign would traverse 28,000 km in his own state, the last leg of it on a seaplane, rallying votes for his party that has been i...

Party insiders even credit Yadav with the planning and implementation of Vasundhara Raje’s ‘Suraaj Sankalp Yatra’ travelled over 13,000 kms across 33 districts in the state.

"Forget absolute majority, the party will not even get enough number of seats to form the government. The Congress on the other hand will reach close to the majority mark," Kakade claimed.