AGARTALA, Dec 19 (TIWN): With the Gujarat Poll results, which somehow failed to please Central BJP's expectation, with a fall in seat numbers, Tripura BJP on Tuesday claimed, "Even though seats have down in Gujarat, but our voting percentage has hiked by 2 % at least". Addressing a press meet, BJP State Observer Sunil Deodhar said, "Gujarat and Himachal both Elections are significant in their own ways, but the post-result analysis says that at least 2 % votes have increased in BJP's bag. The winning of BJP at there is itself a lesson for CPI-M as well as Congress who badmouthed about GST, Demonetization". About Himchal Election, where the Chief Minister candidate had lost his constituency, Deodhar said, "It's prove that a person can't be greater than the party". Noteworthy, Prem Kumar Dhumal, BJP's CM candidate in Himachal Pradesh, lost Sujanpur Assembly seat to Congress's Rajinder Rana.

The BJP leader also said that at Gujarat the tribal vote banks have been increased, whereas in some places where a communal tension was created by opposition in those places the votebanks received loss. Also NOTA votes had taken 2 % which proves that even though there were some resentments among common people, but they rejected Congress. Total 16 seats had gone under NOTA vote banks. 

Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) bagged 99 seats, seven more than the magic figure of 92 in a House of 182. Putting up an improved performance, the Congress secured 77 seats while its allies got three more. The NCP, which fought alone, got a lone seat and Independents got two. 

With the BJP on Monday managing to hold on to power in Gujarat - though with a reduced tally of 99 seats, the Congress, which along with its allies won 80, lost by a margin of less than 1,000 votes in at least three seats. The Gujarat Assembly election results 2017 is a mixed bag of developments for both the main contesting parties - the BJP and the Congress. The BJP can revel in victory in the prestigious election for the sixth time in a row since 1995.