 "BJP workers celebrating after winning both Gujarat and Himachal Pradesh Assembly elections")
Soma Ghosh, a housewife living in Vejalpur on the western fringes of Ahmedabad, has voted for a stable and strong government. "We live in a sensitive zone bordered by Juhapura, Asia's largest Muslim ghetto. This area was vandalised during the 2002 riots. We want a strong government that would stop the ghetto from spreading further into Vejalpur," she says.
Ghosh echoes the sentiments of the majority of voters in Vejalpur, a largely cosmopolitan zone in Ahmedabad that is home to a sizable non-Gujarati population. Thus, Mihir Shah, the Congress candidate there, is going to find his going tough. The Bharatiya Janata
