In 12 out of 17 seats, the BJP led by six, compared to five for the Congress . The Aam Aadmi Party failed to register in any of the 16 Muslim-dominated seats it competed in .
Even though the BJP did not field a single Muslim, Muslim-dominated constituencies played a part in the BJP's impressive victory in Gujarat today.In 12 out of 17 seats, the BJP led by six, compared to just five for the Congress.Gyasuddin Shaikh, a Congress MLA, lost to Kausik Jain, a BJP Candidate.The Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) had failed to register in any of the 16 Muslim-dominated seats it competed in.
AIMIM has 13 candidates, two non-Muslims, who ate into Congress votes in Muslim-dominated areas like Jamalpur-Khadia and Vadgam, including Imran Khedawala's defeat.Jignesh Mevani was trailing by a small margin in Vadgam.The Congress, playing to the Gujarat Muslim voters who firmly support it, had vehemently backed the Gujarat government's early release of 11 prisoners in the Bilkis Bano case on August 15, a day before Independence Day.The step sparked a racial outrage, which was amplified by footage of the rapists being garlanded and saluted as heroes by a Hindu group.In Godhra, BJP leader Chandrasinh Raulji, who was instrumental in the decision to free the rapists and had branded them Sanskari Brahmins, has won.