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.
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.
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.
After trailing in the earlier rounds of counting for the Nagaland Assembly, the BJP's Nagaland chief Temjen Imna Along opened up a lead in his constituency, Alongtaki, on Thursday.
The Election Commission of India has set up 13 counting centres for the counting of votes for the Meghalaya assembly elections on March 2 and adequate security measures have been taken across the state.
During the high-decibel election campaign that ended on Saturday, all the contesting parties made a last-ditch effort to win over the voters in bid to swing their mandate in their favour. Many top BJP leaders, led by Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Union Home Minister Amit Shah canvassed
CM Baghel further said, "The counting is going on, we should wait till the end, but what we had expected that our government will be formed in Himachal is now visible. I have been made an observer in Himachal, so I will go to Himachal via Delhi today."
Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal, who led Aam Aadmi Party to astounding victory in the civic body polls on Wednesday, thanked the people for "believing" in him and also sought Prime Minister Narendra Modi's "blessings" for making the city better.
According to the latest data shared by the Election Commission, the AAP won 126 wards out of 250 so far. The BJP, which has been ruling the civic body since 2007, managed to win 97 seats with the party leading on 6 seats till 2 pm, thus facing a defeat in the MCD polls after 15 years.