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AHMEDABAD, India, Dec 15 (Reuters) - Workers of India's ruling Bharatiya Janata Party, celebrating a landslide victory in a state election, clashed with Muslims on Sunday in the western state of Gujarat but no casualties were reported, police said.

A senior police official said BJP workers and Muslims threw stones at each other in Raopura in the town of Baroda, about 150 km (93 miles) south of Ahemdabad, the state's main city. Police used tear gas to disperse the mob and imposed a curfew.

There were also incidents of stone-throwing in the communally sensitive Dariapur area of the old quarter of Ahmedabad, police said.

Earlier, the main opposition Congress party conceded defeat after seat projections showed the BJP winning a comfortable majority in the state's 182-seat legislative assembly.

At least 1,000 people, mostly Muslims, died in reprisals this year after 59 Hindus were killed when their train was torched by a Muslim mob in the town of Godhra on February 27. 

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