"Alliance meeting has been called today": Jharkhand Congress in-charge Ghulam Ahmed Mir

Ranchi (Jharkhand) [India], November 24 (ANI): Following the victory of the Mahagathbandhan alliance in the Jharkhand polls, state's Congress in-charge Ghulam Ahmed Mir said that a meeting of the winning candidates of the alliance has been called today to start the process of forming the government in the State.
"Today at around 12 o'clock there is a meeting of the MLAs of the alliance and from there the process of forming the government will start," Mir told ANI.
Reacting to the results of Jharkhand polls, Mir stated that the mandate, the alliance has received is enough and 'respectable'.
He said, "...Today, those people who were spreading rumours about Congress have got an answer. This is a respectable mandate, although our expectations were more than this... I do not think that the figure we have received is less because BJP's fight was with Congress only, apart from this there were many other elements who were fighting with Congress...."
Meanwhile, Jharkhand BJP President Babulal Marandi congratulated Chief Minister Hemant Soren for registering victory in the polls and said that the party has accepted the mandate of the public.
He said, "First of all, congratulations to Hemant Soren for the victory. We accept the mandate of the people of Jharkhand and certainly, we all will look at our shortcomings and where we have gone wrong..."
Earlier on Saturday, Congress leader Pawan Khera expressed his happiness after declaration of the Jharkhand assembly election results and stated that the people of the state had 'rejected' the National Democratic Alliance (NDA).
Speaking to ANI, the Congress leader stated that the "divisive politics" in Jharkhand has been defeated.
"In Jharkhand, we have won, and divisive politics has been defeated... We are very happy... The people of Jharkhand have rejected them (NDA)," Khera said.
Notably the Jharkhand Mukti Morcha (JMM) won 34 seats, with its allies winning 22 seats. Among JMM's allies, the Congress won 16 seats, RJD four seats, and CPI-ML two seats. The BJP won 21 seats, and its allies AJSU, Lok Janshakti Party (Ram Vilas), and JD-U won one each.
The Jharkhand Mukti Morcha-led alliance is set to retain power in the State where assembly polls were conducted in two phases. The first phase was held on November 13 and the second phase on November 20. (ANI)