Uttarakhand Chief Minister Pushkar Singh Dhami has expressed his happiness over the spectacular victory of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) and its allies in the Mahayuti alliance during the Maharashtra Assembly elections on Sunday.
In the wake of the landslide victory of the Mahayuti, Shiv Sena winning candidate from the Sawantwadi Assembly seat Deepak Kesarkar on Sunday said that the people of India and Maharashtra have come out of that wrong narrative set by the INDIA alliance.
Following the landslide victory of the Mahayuti alliance in the Maharashtra Assembly polls, BJP's winning candidate from the Savner Assembly seat Dr Ashishrao Deshmukh said that the party workers and MLAs are in favour of making Devendra Fadnavis the Chief Minister.
Following the victory of the Mahagathbandhan alliance in the Jharkhand polls, state's Congress in-charge Ghulam Ahmed Mir informed 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.
Samajwadi Party (SP) chief Akhilesh Yadav on Saturday congratulated SP candidates Naseem Solanki and Tej Pratap Yadav for their victories in the Sisamau and Karhal Assembly bye-elections.
The ruling BJP-led Mahayuti alliance has won the Maharashtra assembly polls and is poised for a landslide mandate, while in Bihar, NDA candidates won all four Assembly constituencies where by-elections were held.
JD(S) youth wing president and Channapatna bye-election candidate Nikhil Kumaraswamy expressed gratitude to the people of Channapatna for their support and reiterated his commitment to the constituency's development, despite his electoral defeat.
According to the Election Commission, Priyanka Gandhi won the Wayanad bypoll by 4,10,931 votes by defeating BJP candidate Navya Haridas and CPI candidate Sathyan Mokeri. She won 6,22,338 votes, Sathyan Mokeri bagged 2,11,407 and Navya Haridas managed to win 1,09,939 votes.
National People's Party (NPP) candidate Mehtab Chandee Sangma has won the by-poll to the Gambegre constituency in Meghalaya, according to the Election Commission.
Party candidate from Gandey and CM Hemant Soren's wife, Kalpana Soren, continued to lead from her seat in the Jharkhand state assembly election counting on Saturday.
Former Chief Minister of Karnataka and BJP MP Basavaraj Bommai said he will humbly accept the verdict of the people in the Shiggaon-Savanur constituency by-election and congratulated Congress candidate Yasir Khan Pathan saying, " I hope the development journey in the constituency continues."
As Mahayuti is poised to form the government in Maharashtra, Uttarakhand Chief Minister Pushkar Singh Dhami on Saturday said that the victory in the Maharashtra Assembly elections shows that the people believe only in development and rejects "false promises and negative politics."