BJP's top leadership will decide on early polls in Gujarat: Vijay Rupani

AHMEDABAD: Gujarat Chief Minister Vijay Rupani today said his party's central leadership will take a final decision on whether to go for snap polls in the state or not.

"The decision on early polls will be taken by the party's top leadership in Delhi," Rupani told reporters at Sarangpur in neighbouring Botad district before addressing a meeting of BJP workers.

"However, I would like to tell that the state BJP is ready for polls, if they are held earlier or even if they are held in December as per schedule," he told reporters.

Speculations have been rife in political circles here that following a massive victory in Uttar Pradesh, the BJP might call snap elections in its stronghold state Gujarat to cash in on the popularity surge.

While addressing the party workers later, Rupani said that after BJP's historic win in Uttar Pradesh, all the opposition parties would unite to defeat BJP in Gujarat.

"The massive mandate in Uttar Pradesh is a victory of the nationalist ideology of BJP. The results of UP have terrorised the Opposition in believing that it might lose the 2019 parliamentary elections. Therefore, they are now turning their attention towards Gujarat to defeat the BJP here," he said.

The Chief Minister called upon the party workers to take the upcoming state polls very seriously and visit each and every house to spread development works done by the state government.

Rupani attacked the Congress saying that the party has conspired to win the Gujarat elections by creating difference on the lines of "caste and creed", indirectly attacking the opposition party for the Patel quota agitation.

Gujarat polls are scheduled to be held in December this year.