Assembly election results 2018 News
Rajasthan Assembly Elections: In Chhattisgarh, state minister T.S. After the decision to make Singh Dev the Deputy Chief Minister, the top leadership of the Congress now wants to end the ongoing tussle between Ashok Gehlot and Rajesh Pilot in Rajasthan. In fact, encouraged by the victory in Karnataka, the Congress does not want to make any mistake regarding the assembly elections in Madhya Pradesh, Chhattisgarh, Telangana and Rajasthan.
Congress Legislature Party (CLP) meeting will take place at 12 pm, added Punia.
The Congress will hold its legislature party meeting at the party's state office Rajiv Bhawan in Raipur on Saturday to make the announcement.
Rahul Gandhi has been tasked with choosing the CMs of Rajasthan and MP by the Congress party.
After a long drawn out counting battle on Tuesday, the Congress made inroads into Madhya Pradesh, the heartland of India, winning 114 out of 230 seats. The party will stake claim to form the government with BSP support later in the day. Congress also secured big wins in Rajasthan and Chhattisgarh and is set to form the governments in the two states. The party, however, lost its last Northeast bastion in Mizoram after winning just five seats. The Mizo National Front (MNF) captured the power in the Northeast state, winning in 26 of the 40 assembly constituencies. K Chandrashekhar Rao-led TRS swept the Telangana polls, decimating the Prajakutami – the grand alliance of Congress, Telugu Desam Party (TDP), Communist Party of India (CPI) and Telangana Jana Samithi (TJS) – on its way.
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Counting of votes for the five state assemblies would begin at 8 am on Tuesday and a clear trend is likely to emerge by afternoon.
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Though the strength of each assembly is 60, voting was held for 59 constituencies in all the three states, for different reasons.
Former Chief Minister Neiphiu Rio has already been declared the winner uncontested in the Northern Angami II constituency.
BJP has emerged strong with at least two exit polls predicting that it would snatch power from Manik Sarkar-led Left Front government in Tripura and consolidate its position in Meghalaya and Nagaland.
Nagaland, Meghalaya and Tripura will get new Assemblies today after the election results are declared later in the day. Initial trends show a close contest between the Left Front and BJP-led alliance in Tripura. In Nagaland BJP and its allies have already taken a slender lead and in Meghalaya Congress and BJP are in a neck and neck fight.
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