Jharkhand results indicate AAP will sweep Delhi polls: Sanjay Singh
In the 2015 polls, AAP secured 67 of the 70 assembly seats.
In the 2015 polls, AAP secured 67 of the 70 assembly seats.
Congress interim president Sonia Gandhi on Monday termed the Jharkhand Assembly poll victory as “special and of extreme contemporary importance”…
In a major setback to the BJP and its Chief Minister in office Raghubar Das, most of the assembly segments that went to the polls in the second phase of Jharkhand elections and were seemingly saffron stronghold have been swept by the JMM.
The Congress, JMM and RJD alliance which is currently leading on 42 seats contested on 31, 43 and seven seats respectively.
Meanwhile, incumbent CM Raghubar Das, who was leading in Jamshedpur East, has been pushed to the second position by independent candidate Saryu Roy. Das is now trailing by 771 votes.
The exit polls have predicted that the Jharkhand state elections are likely to throw up a hung Assembly and given an edge to the Congress-JMM-RJD alliance.
The exit polls indicate edge to JMM and Congress alliance.
Jharkhand recorded around 71 per cent voting in the fifth and final phase of polling on Friday for 16 Assembly constituencies.
The five-phase election in Jharkhand concluded and the counting will take place on December 23.
The fifth and final phase of the election will be held on December 20 for the remaining 16 seats.
