NEW DELHI, December 15 (IslamOnline) - The Hindu nationalist BJP on Sunday, December 15, won decisively Gujarat elections and with it the politics of hate and genocide too have gained acceptance at least in a part of India.

BJP achieved majority in a legislature of 182 members by wining 125 seats, while the Congress won 52 leaving only 4 seats for others.

Election was not held in one seat because of the death of one of the candidates before the election, as the rule is that elections are postponed if any candidate died before the elections.

According to the indication of early results, the BJP was expected to improve even on its 1998 position when it had won 122 out of 173 seats.

For the first time a political party in India has resorted to full blown Hindutva (Hinduness or Hindu revival) slogans in the wake of worst ever communal riots in the country following the Godhra train tragedy for which Muslims were accused but it is yet not clear what happened on that fateful day and who was behind it.

There are indications that the forces of hate themselves initiated or caused that tragedy and later used it to the hilt. Before that tragedy, the BJP was losing elections everywhere in the country including by-elections in Gujarat itself. Now as a result of the riots and raising undiluted Hindutva slogans, they have won even in traditional Congress bastions.

Leaders of the BJP and its supporting organizations, like the VHP, had already indicated that if the Hindutva slogan wins in Gujarat, it will be repeated all over the country. That means that communal riots will be instigated before elections which in turn will lead to a sharp polarization of the Hindu vote and the BJP will step in to seek those polarized votes by claiming to be the champion of the Hindu causes.

Anyone who does not share the hardcore Hindutva is "pseudo-secular" and "son of Musharraf". BJP leaders were saying during the election campaign that a Congress win will be victory for Musharraf and that Pakistan was financing the Congress campaign.

Money and muscle power are also unabashedly used by these elements to win at any cost. VHP president Ashok Singhal has repeatedly threatened that "Gujarat" will be repeated all over the country. BJP has won decisively in the riot-affected areas in central Gujarat, a traditional Congress bastion, which have witness sharpest communal polarization.

A majority of Gujarat voters have demonstrated that for them issues of progress, poverty, water, electricity, housing, roads, education are not important. The Congress Party was raising these issues while toeing a "soft" Hindutva line.

Chief Minister Narendra Modi’s aggressive Hindutva campaign after the February 27 train-burning incident in Godhra has paid rich dividends to him and his party. He followed the riots up with Gaurav Yatras (pride marches) despite apprehensions even in his own party. He was taking pride in what his elder leaders like Prime Minister Vajpayee and Deputy Prime Minister Advani had described as "blot" and "indefensible."

There are fears that now Modi will try to take over the party at the expense of the so-called moderates like Vajpayee who had advised Modi not to use Godhra, an advice Modi did not heed.

The main opposition party, the Congress, said today that the BJP victory in Gujarat is the victory of "fear and terror generated" by BJP and defeat for progress and development championed by Congress.

During the election campaign, BJP campaigned for generating fear to divide people on communal lines which led to the defeat of the Congress party, the general secretary of the party in charge of Gujarat, Kamal Nath, said reacting to the results.

However, Nath said the Congress message of peace and development was well received by the people of Gujarat which was demonstrated by the high percentage of votes gained by the party.

Meanwhile, as feared earlier, anti-Muslim violence erupted in parts of Gujarat as BJP elements took out victory processions. Curfew was imposed in parts of Raopura and Kareli Baug police stations of Vadodara after rioting started in the Machhipeeth area and spread to other areas Sunday afternoon. Protesters turned violent when they reached some Muslim-dominated areas. There were reports of mob violence in some other areas of Vadodara.