After RS setback, Shah sets 150-seat target for BJP in Gujarat polls

TIL Desk/National/Gandhinagar/ BJP chief Amit Shah on Thursday asked the party workers to work towards achieving the target of winning 150 of the total 182 seats in Gujarat in the upcoming Assembly polls. He said “Mission 150” would ensure that the BJP wins three Rajya Sabha seats in the state next time.

Election to the three Rajya Sabha seats in Gujarat were held yesterday. While Shah and Union minister Smriti Irani were elected to the Upper House of Parliament, party candidate Balwantsinh Rajpur was defeated by Congress veteran Ahmed Patel.

Shah, who resigned as the state MLA today, told the cadres that the magic number of 150 achieved in the upcoming elections would make it possible for the BJP to win the Rajya Sabha seats, irrespective of the number of votes a candidate gets. He was speaking at the felicitation function organised at the party’s state headquarters at Kamalam here.

Irani and Rajput were also felicitated on the occasion. Shah and Irani have made their maiden entry into the upper house. “Today, the assembly secretary was explaining to me that Balwantsinh was defeated by around 0.40 votes, and could have won, had he got that many votes. But if we get 150 seats (in the upcoming state election), all our three candidates will win,” Shah said. He exhorted the party workers to achieve the party’s “Mission 150” and begin preparation for the same.