Retaliating to Congress leader Ahmed Patel's claim that Congress party will cross 'double digits' in the state, Gujarat Chief Minister Vijay Rupani on Saturday said the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) will repeat its performance of 2014 polls by bagging all the 26 Lok Sabha seats in the state. He also said that Narendra Modi is a Gujarati and it would be advantageous for the state to have such a person as the prime minister. Congress will not get even a single seat (in Gujarat)," said the chief minister while talking to media persons. Highlighting what Gujarat gained in the last five years, the chief minister said that the issue of the royalty of crude oil and gas was pending for years together. When asked to comment on Congress' claim that the BJP is raising nationalism to deflect from the main issues, Rupani said: "For ten years, Manmohan Singh was the Prime Minister.

Source: dna April 21, 2019 00:00 UTC