"Surat offered the first lotus to make our Narendrabhai the Prime Minister again," Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP)'s Gujarat unit wrote on X (formerly Twitter), hours after Mukesh Dalal, party's candidate won the Lok Sabha polls unopposed with his opponents out of the fray.
On Monday, 22 April, Dalal was given a Member of Parliament (MP) certificate by the District Election Officer, Sourabh Pardhi. With this he became the first elected candidate in the 2024 Lok Sabha elections.