The Maha Vikas Aghadi (MVA) suffered a massive jolt with Shiv Sena (UBT) led by Uddhav Thackeray winning 20 seats, Congress securing 16, and NCP(SP) led by Sharad Pawar managed just 10 seats.
A day after the Mahayuti alliance clinched a landslide victory in the Maharashtra Assembly Elections, reacting to results Congress MP Deepender Hooda raised questions on the fairness of the election process as the results are "astonishing".
Maharashtra Chief Minister Eknath Shinde on Sunday met with beneficiaries of 'Majhi Ladki Bahin' scheme, where he expressed his gratitude to them for the historic win of the Mahayuti alliance in assembly polls.
Of 288 assembly constituencies, the ruling Mahayuti secured 230 seats in the assembly polls, the results for which came on Saturday. The BJP won 132 seats while its allies- the Shiv Sena, led by Eknath Shinde, won 57 seats, and the NCP, led by Ajit Pawar, won 41 seats.
"Earlier also we had demanded one ministerial post for RPI. This time Mahayuti has received a majority of Dalit votes...So, I feel that RPI should get a ministerial post. Our society also has this hope. Giving ministerial post to RPI will also benefit Mahayuti," the Union Minister told AN
A day after the Mahayuti alliance clinched a landslide victory in the Maharashtra Assembly Elections, NCP-SCP leader Jitendra Awhad expressed disappointment over the results, saying that it is "unexcpected."
Union Minister of State for Home Affairs Nityanand Rai said on Sunday that the BJP-led NDA have achieved a "record-breaking victory" in Maharashtra and that people have expressed their faith in the leadership of Prime Minister Narendra Modi.
BJP leader and Odisha Law Minister Prithviraj Harichandan expressed disappointment over the debacle in the Jharkhand Assembly polls and said that there might be some flaws and the party would analyse it.
Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) leader Kirit Somaiya lashed out at the opposition in Maharashtra for blaming the EVMs for their loss in the Maharashtra elections.
The Indian stock markets will react to the recently announced election outcomes of the states and domestic macroeconomic data, Foreign Institutional fund flows, and Monetory policy review meeting of Reserve Bank of India's (RBI) in the first week of December, according to the market analyst
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.
Jharkhand Chief Minister Hemant Soren will go to Raj Bhavan today at 4 pm to resign and stake the claim to form the government again in Jharkhand, following the INDIA bloc victory in the polls.