Ahmedabad, 31/10: The BJP is not fighting the Gujarat state election to avert defeat but to increase its victory margins and win a greater number of seats in the 182-member assembly. In the last state election in 2017, the nation’s pre-eminent party won just 99 seats, although that figure went up to 112 through defections from the Congress and by-elections. Still, it was not an ego-boosting result from the first state election after Narendra Modi shifted to Delhi in 2014. And with the 2024 national poll now just two years away, the PM would no doubt want a greater assertion of his popularity in the home state where he created the cult of his own leadership
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