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Reuters
Reuters
Business
By Sumit Khanna

PM Modi's party set for record win in India's Gujarat state election

Supporters of India's ruling Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) shout slogans as they celebrate after learning of the initial poll results of Gujarat state assembly election in Gandhinagar, India, December 8, 2022. REUTERS/Amit Dave

Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi's Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) was set to win the biggest majority by any party at elections in his home state of Gujarat on Thursday, a big boost to the Hindu nationalists ahead of general elections in 2024.

The western industrial state of Gujarat is a bastion of the BJP, which has not lost a state assembly election there since 1995. Modi was Gujarat's chief minister for 13 years before becoming prime minister in 2014.

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