Assembly elections live updates: Congress, BJP express confidence of victory; Suspense over Congress CM face in Haryana, PDP hints backing NC-Congress in J-K.
Assembly elections live updates: Women voters wait outside a polling booth to cast their votes during the Haryana Assembly Election at Raipur village in Nuh, Mewat, in Gurugram on Saturday. (Parveen Kumar/HT PHOTO)
Assembly elections live updates: Elections to the 90-member state legislative assembly passed off peacefully in Haryana, barring minor clashes in Nuh district on Saturday. According to the Election Commmission of India (ECI), single-phase polling recorded a voter turnout of 65.65 per cent as of 11.45 pm, a slight drop from 68% recorded in previous assembly elections in 2019.…Read More
The exit polls predicted a clear majority for the Congress party in Haryana with some survey’s predicting more than 50 seats. Two major parties, the ruling BJP and the Congress expressed confidence of thumping victory. The majority mark to form a government in Haryana is 46.
In the union territory of Jammu and Kashmir, the exit polls predicted an edge to the Congress-National Conference (NC) alliance, gaining seats close to the majority mark of 46. Overall, the first assembly election in J&K after abrogation of Article 370 is expected to throw up mixed results.
The BJP is predicted to emerge as the largest party in the Jammu region, while the Congress-NC alliance will suprass the BJP and other smaller parties in the Kashmir Valley. NC is expected to emerge as the single largest party overall from the three-phase elections that recorded 63.88 per cent votes.
Counting of votes for Haryana and J&K will take place on October 8.
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Oct 6, 2024 7:52 AM IST
Assembly elections live updates: Bhupinder Hooda says high command will decide CM face
Assembly elections live updates: Former Haryana chief minister Bhupinder Singh Hooda reiterated that the party high command will decide on the CM pick based on the opinions of elected MLA’s.
“When people sought an account (of the works done) from them, they changed their chief minister. But people decided to change the government,” he said referring to the exit polls predictions.
Oct 6, 2024 7:17 AM IST
Assembly elections live updates: PDP vows any step to save Kashmir’s identity
Assembly elections live updates: PDP leader Zuhaib Mir said the party is ready to take any step to save the identity of Kashmir, hinting at possibility of a strategy to support any non-BJP government in J&K.
“As far as we are concerned, exit polls are not a serious activity but time pass activity. PDP is confident that it will be an indispensable and important part of the secular government that will form in J-K. PDP will have an important role in forming any secular government. We had said that we are ready to take any step to save the identity of Kashmir but for this, it is important that we formulate a secular government, a government against BJP not with them,” he said.