Thank you Gujarat: Modi

AHMEDABAD: Chief Minister Narendra Modi thanked the people of Gujarat for his Bharatiya Janata Party's (BJP) victory in assembly elections on Sunday.

"I thank the people of Gujarat for giving me the responsibility of governance for another term," he said in a statement released by the party.

"I humbly accept the historic verdict of the people," he said. "Let us rise above political equations and rededicate ourselves for the development of the state.

"The credit for the victory goes not to me or the BJP but to the five and a half crore (55 million) people of Gujarat because the agenda for the election was set not by any political party but by them.

"In mandate after the elections fought on the issue of development, this is a victory of the people of Gujarat. By defeating the anti-Gujarat elements, Gujarat has made its decision to continue its victory march."

Modi also thanked his party and its senior leaders 'for putting confidence in me as a BJP worker'.

Calling the win 'historic', he said 'the people of Gujarat, hundreds of thousands of BJP workers and the guidance of the central leadership have scripted a new chapter in history'.