Assam Chief Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma has said that people of the three northeastern states where elections were recently held have reiterated their trust in Prime Minister Narendra Modi.
The Prime Minister received a warm welcome at BJP headquarters in the national capital after the results of assembly polls of three northeastern states were declared on Thursday.
Maintaining status quo in the Northeastern states of Tripura, Meghalaya and Nagaland, the BJP and its allies returned to power in the results declared on Thursday.
After the results of assembly polls of three northeastern states were declared on Thursday, Prime Minister Narendra Modi said that the election results depict people's faith in democracy, adding that the Northeast is neither far from Delhi nor from the heart.
Prime Minister Narendra Modi received a warm welcome at Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) headquarters in Delhi after the Assembly polls results of three northeastern states of Tripura, Nagaland and Meghalaya on Thursday.
Meghalaya recorded a voting percentage of over 76 per cent and Nagaland saw a voter turnout of over 84 per cent in the polling for assembly elections in the two northeastern states on Monday
Amid the ongoing polling in the Northeast states of Meghalaya and Nagaland, Congress Chief Mallikarjun Kharge on Monday appealed to voters of the two states to give "change a chance".
Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Friday said that the Congress and similar parties used to loot Northeastern states and treated them as ATMs, while the BJP considers the Northeast as the growth engine of the country's development.
The Election Commission of India's thrust on "inducement-free" elections has led to sustained efforts for monitoring election expenditure in the three poll-going states of Tripura, Nagaland, and Meghalaya.
Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath on Wednesday praised the nationalist fervour of the northeastern states in preserving the unity and integrity of India.