BJP loses Jharkhand elections to Congress- JMM alliance |
The assembly election results of the Indian state of Jharkhand delivered a morale-boosting victory for the opposition with the JMM-Congress-RJD alliance winning a comfortable majority of 47 seats in a House of 81. It meant that yet another state slipped out of the BJP`s hands after its big sweep in the Lok Sabha elections that returned Prime Minister Narendra Modi to a record second term. While JMM had 30 seats, Congress had 16 and RJD ones. JMM and Congress posted their best-ever shows. Hemant Soren of JMM is set to take over as chief minister, returning to the job he held for a year before BJP won in 2015. The oath ceremony will take place on Thursday. BJP slipped to 25 seats from 37 it held in 2014, its decision to contest alone after failed negotiations with regional ally AJSU Party backfiring and the party ceding the status of “single-largest party” for the first time. It was astonishing that six months ago, the same party swept the Lok Sabha elections with BJP winning 11 and AJSU one out of Jharkhand`s 14 seats. Incumbency woes returned to haunt BJP with chief minister Raghubar Das losing his own Jamshedpur East seat to BJP rebel Saryu Roy by a margin of over 15,000 votes.
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