Four development challenges for BJP and Modi following Gujarat win

With BJP's fifth successive win in Gujarat, it faces various challenges such as lower immunisation rates, low enrollment of girls in school, and low conviction rates for crimes against SC-ST

As the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) forms its fifth successive government in Gujarat–India’s westernmost state, with a population of 60.4 million–it faces the challenges of lower immunisation rates than the Indian average, low enrollment of girls in school, and low conviction rates for crimes against scheduled castes and tribes when compared to the India average.

Gujarat, the country’s sixth richest of 30 states in 2015-16, had a per capita income of Rs 122,502, 57 per cent higher than India’s Rs 77,803 in 2015-16. Over the last 19 years of the BJP government, Gujarat’s per