Gujarat election 2017 results : CM Vijay Rupani wins from Rajkot West

Gujarat chief minister Vijay Rupani won the Rajkot West constituency after trailing in initial trends for assembly election results on Monday.

Congress candidate Indranil Rajyguru, who was leading at one point of time by 6,234, failed to spring a much anticipated surprise.At the end, Vijay Rupani won the seat with a margin of over 25,000 votes. Rajkot West is the most high profile seat of the Gujarat Assembly election as Chief Minister Vijay Rupani faced a tough challenge from Indranil Rajyaguru of the Congress.

Rupani, 60 was banking on his network and party workers, whom he has cultivated in his three-decade-old association with the BJP and the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh, to retain the Rajkot West seat. Rupani's wife Anjali, who is the general secretary of the BJP's woman wing, holds fort in Rajkot West in his absence.

Rupani wields considerable influence in Saurashtra, a politically significant part of Gujarat. The BJP has never lost Rajkot West since 1985, but the entry of Congress leader Indranil Rajyaguru, who gave up his Rajkot East seat to challenge Rupani, has made the contest interesting. Rupani has contested elections only once before, winning Rajkot West in a 2015 byelection.