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Assembly elections 2017| 'Gujarat model' has been shaken, verdict a warning for 2019, Shiv Sena tells BJP

A day after the BJP came to power in Prime Minister Narendra Modi's home state of Gujarat for the sixth consecutive term while staving off a strong challenge from the Congress, the Shiv Sena said the narrow margin of victory indicated it had a tough fight on its hands in the 2019 Lok Sabha elections.

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A day after the BJP came to power in Prime Minister Narendra Modi's home state of Gujarat for the sixth consecutive term while staving off a strong challenge from the Congress, the Shiv Sena said the narrow margin of victory indicated it had a tough fight on its hands in the 2019 Lok Sabha elections.

The Shiv Sena, which is part of the BJP-led regimes in Maharashtra and the Centre, claimed that the 'Gujarat model' of its senior ally had been shaken badly as was indicated by the Gujarat and Himachal Pradesh results.

"The BJP won in Gujarat and Himachal, but the Congress was not defeated and the dream of a Congress-mukt Hindustan was not realised, this is a final message to people who think their word is the law. The Gujarat model has been shaken to its roots, We sincerely hope it does no collapse in 2019," said an editorial in the Shiv Sena mouthpiece Saamna.

The newspaper has party president Uddhav Thackeray as the editor and Rajya Sabha MP Sanjay Raut as the executive editor.

It likened the BJP's position to a student who had cleared the exams with a wafer-thin margin, but was putting on the airs of passing with distinction.

The Shiv Sena said the BJP had to fall back on communal polarisation and raise the bogey of Pakistan after it realised that issues like demonetisation of high-value currency notes and GST could cost it dearly at the hustings.

The editorial said while the BJP had won, the discussions centered around Rahul Gandhi's leap which denoted its position as a strong opposition party. The Shiv Sena also scoffed at BJP president Amit Shah's claim that the party would garner 150 assembly seats in Gujarat, when in reality it's tally had failed to even touch three digits.

"If the result is to be explained in one line, the winds have not changed but have slowed down. The wave has receded," the editorial said.

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