With the declaration of results for the Tripura Assembly polls on Thursday, Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) returned to power in the state by winning an absolute majority.
Bharatiya Janata Party and its allies partner Nationalist Democratic Progressive Party (NDPP) have crossed the majority mark by winning 34 seats so far in Nagaland as the counting of votes continues.
Defence Minister Rajnath Singh on Thursday took a swipe at the Congress saying that the party is not digging the Bharatiya Janata Party's grave as it says, but its own.
The Bharatiya Janata Party and its allies -- IPFT and NDPP -- were likely to retain power in Tripura and Nagaland, as per the latest trends post the initial rounds of counting in these two Northeast states.
The ruling alliance of the Nationalist Democratic Progressive Party (NDPP) and Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) won eight seats in the 60-member Nagaland Assembly, as per the counting trends shared by the Election Commission (EC) at 1.25 pm on Thursday.
The ruling Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) was on course to retain power in Tripura as the party reached the halfway mark in the latest trends amid the ongoing counting of votes.
The ruling Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) was on course to retain power in Tripura as the party reached the halfway mark in the latest trends amid the ongoing counting of votes on Thursday.
The ruling alliance of the Nationalist Democratic Progressive Party (NDPP) and the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) in Nagaland was leading in 14 Assembly constituencies, as per the early counting trends in the Northeast state shared by the Election Commmission at 9.50am.
Bharatiya Janata Party is leading in 3 seats, Congress 2 seats and CPIM in 1 seat as per the latest trends in the counting which began for the Tripura Assembly polls on Thursday morning.
Bharatiya Janata Party performed puja at the party office in Tripura's Agartala on Thursday ahead of the counting of votes for the Assembly elections today.
With the Madhya Pradesh government presenting the state budget on Wednesday, Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) state president VD Sharma termed it as a pro-farmer budget and accused the previous Congress governments of making farmers defaulters.