Assembly Election Results LIVE: NCP elects Ajit Pawar as leader of party, Soren to stake claim to form govt

NCP leader Chhagan Bhujbal said, "All the three parties will sit together and decide who will be our leader. We three parties will sit together and decide who will become the CM, Ajit Pawar can also become the CM, his strike rate is very good. Today all our MLAs came to the meeting, many council members also came, and everyone has decided that Ajit Pawar will lead us in the Vidhan Sabha. But who will be the CM, we three parties will decide together..."

BJP Maharashtra chief Chandrashekhar Bawankule slammed Congress. He said, "...Maharashtra will not have a leader of the opposition (LoP) this time. This is the result of the wrong deeds of Congress and the opposition. They spread fake narratives in Lok Sabha Elections and duped voters at that time. So when people came to know about this in assembly polls, voters kicked them out as they did in Haryana..."

Mahayuti leaders and BJP leadership will decide who will be Maharashtra's next chief minister, said BJP state unit chief Chandrashekhar Bawankule.

The meeting started after RJD and Congress MLAs reached Hemant Soren's residence.

"The BJP has been completely defeated by Hemant Soren and Kalpana Soren. This is a major victory. From the very beginning, we said we would secure 53 plus seats, and we have made history by winning 56," said JMM leader Mahua Maji.

The Nationalist Congress Party (NCP) on Sunday elected party president Ajit Pawar as the leader of the party in the legislative assembly. In a meeting chaired by party state president and Lok Sabha MP Sunit Tatkare, Pawar was appointed as the leader of the legislative party, and his colleague Anil Patil was reappointed as the chief whip. Patil will oversee the attendance of legislators and address their requests to speak on various topics during the sessions. The NCP and its Mahayuti allies, BJP and Shiv Sena, managed a stellar performance, clinching 233 out of 288 seats in the state assembly polls. The party bagged 41 out of 59 seats it contested and defeated its rival faction, NCP (SP), in 29 seats.

After the crushing defeat in the assembly elections, Raj Thackeray's party MNS will hold a meeting tomorrow. This meeting has been called by MNS president Raj Thackeray. Tomorrow morning, the meeting will be held at Raj Thackeray's Dadar residence at around 11 am. MNS's top leaders will be present in the meeting. MNS contested on around 125 seats but not a single candidate could win. Even Raj Thackeray's son Amit Thackeray and Bala Nandgaonkar lost the elections.

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Mumbai: NCP meeting underway at the residence of Maharashtra Dy CM Ajit Pawar.

Jharkhand CM Hemant Soren will go to Raj Bhavan in Ranchi at 4 pm to resign and stake the claim to form the government again in Jharkhand. Hemant Soren-led JMM steered the INDIA bloc to victory with 56 seats in the 81-member Jharkhand assembly.

BJP Maharashtra chief Chandrashekhar Bawankule chaired a meeting for BJP's membership campaign committee after the victory in the Maharashtra Assembly elections.

Mumbai: NCP leaders arrive at the residence of Maharashtra Dy CM Ajit Pawar to attend a meeting here.

 According to sources, Hemant Soren will take oath as Jharkhand CM on November 26.  The sources further said that the apart from  Soren, six ministers will be made from JMM, 4 from Congress and 1 from RJD.

Big leaders of the parties involved in the I.N.D.I.A. alliance will be present in Hemant Soren's swearing-in ceremony. Arvind Kejriwal may attend Hemant Soren's swearing-in ceremony. Rahul Gandhi, Tejashwi Yadav and Dipankar Bhattacharya may attend Hemant Soren's swearing-in ceremony. Akhilesh Yadav and Mamata Banerjee are also invited. (Input: Nitish Chandra)

Eknath Shinde's legislative party meeting may be held around 6 pm. Shinde Sena has booked 60 rooms for the MLAs to stay at Taj Lands End.

9 MLAs of Mahayuti left from Kolhapur to Mumbai by charter flight.

  "Women have given us (the Mahayuti) tremendous support (in this state Assembly election). I sincerely thank and express my gratitude to all the sisters, daughters, and women. For the first time, a government has extended such strong support to women, and I am very happy," said NCP leader Surekha Thakare.

So far, around 20 BJP MLAs have come to meet Devendra Fadnavis at Sagar Bungalow.

A meeting of Shiv Sena MLAs from the Eknath Shinde faction is scheduled to take place at the Taj Lands End Hotel in Mumbai. MLAs have already started arriving at the venue. Among them, Pratap Sarnaik, a prominent MLA from the Shinde-led Shiv Sena, expressed his support for Eknath Shinde, stating, "We want Eknath Shinde to become the Chief Minister."

(Input: Rajesh Kumar)

"Uddhav (Thackeray) came to my constituency... I am a devotee of Sai Baba, he disrespected him. Even though I offered him a shawl of Sai Baba and his wife said that he became CM because of that shawl. He was punished for disrespecting the faith of people. Despite contesting many seats, he did not secure a win in that many seats. It is the culture of Maharashtra and India that we believe in God and don't disrespect them," said Shiv Sena leader Deepak Kesarkar.

A day after BJP-led Mahayuti retained power in Maharashtra, the Congress on Sunday said that the party and other partners of the Maha Vikas Aghadi will collectively introspect the reasons of their 'shocking' drubbing in the crucial polls. AICC general secretary K C Venugopal said that the assembly poll results in Maharashtra was 'shocking' and 'unbelievable'. "We don't understand what happened. It was not just the debacle of the Congress party but that of the entire Maha Vikas Aghadi. Let us first get a clear picture of what has happened," he told a TV channel

Jharkhand: "A meeting with elected-MLAs, state president, in-charge and observers will be held today. After this, an alliance meeting will be held to discuss when to visit Raj Bhawan," said Congress leader Rajesh Thakur on party's legislature wing meeting in Ranchi. 

Shiv Sena leader Milind Deora, who was defeated by the Aaditya Thackeray, the son of Shiv Sena (UBT) chief Uddhav Thackeray, in Worli, said that he had warned the Congress in 2019 against allying with UBT. "For those asking my reaction to Congress’s bitter defeat:  In 2019, I warned against allying with UBT, knowing it would hurt the party in the long-term. For 12 MVA ministerial berths & short-term gains, Congress sacrificed everything. The irony? Many of those ministers lost yesterday," said Milind Deora.

 Maharashtra BJP state president Chandrashekhar Bawankule arrived the residence of Deputy Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis,  at Sagar Bungalow, to meet him. Organisation minister Shiv Prakash also arrives at his residence.

(Input: Dinesh Maurya)

Shiv Sena (UBT) MP Sanjay Raut said that former Chief Justice of India, DY Chandrachud is responsible for the outocome of Maharashtra Assembly election 2024. "The results of the Maharashtra Assembly election are shocking and unexpected. No one anticipated such outcomes. PM Modi shifted the entire industry from here to Gujarat, so why would people vote for him?... If anyone is responsible for this, it is (former) DY Chandrachud. History will never forgive him," he said during a press conference in Mumbai. 

After the Bharatiya Janata Party-led Mahayuti alliance registered victory in the Maharashtra assembly polls 2024, Mahayuti has asked all the winning MLAs to reach Mumbai. Today, all three parties of Mahayuti are likely to have their legislative party meetings. After the MLAs reach Mumbai, there will be a separate legislative party meeting of BJP, NCP (Ajit Pawar) and Shiv Sena (Eknath Shinde). After electing the leader of the legislative party, the three major leaders of Mahayuti will meet with the BJP high command and a decision will be taken on the Chief Minister post.

As many as 21 women candidates have emerged winner in the elections to the 288-seat Maharashtra assembly, with only one of them from the opposition, according to the poll results. The BJP accounted for the highest number of 14 women candidates emerging victorious, including 10 who were re-elected: Shweta Mahale (Chikli constituency), Meghana Bordikar (Jintur), Devyani Farande (Nashik Central), Seema Hiray (Nashik West), Manda Mhatre (Belapur), Manisha Chaudhari (Dahisar), Vidya Thakur (Goregaon), Madhuri Misal (Parvati), Monica Rajale (Shevgaon) and Namita Mundada (Kaij). The four new women winners of the BJP are Shreejaya Chavan (Bhokar), Sulabha Gaikwad (Kalyan East), Sneha Pandit (Vasai) and Anuradha Chavan (Fulambari), as per the poll results announced by the Election Commission on Saturday. Manjula Gavit (Sakri) and Sanjana Jadhav (Kannad) were elected on the ruling Shiv Sena tickets. Sulbha Khodke (Amravati), Saroj Ahire (Deolali), Sana Malik (Anushaktinagar) and Aditi Tatkare (Shrivardhan) won on the ruling NCP tickets. Congress' Jyoti Gaikwad (Dhavari) will be the lone woman MLA from the opposition's side.

The BJP-led Mahayuti alliance on Saturday retained power in Maharashtra, pocketing a whopping 230 of the 288 assembly seats, as the Congress-led Maha Vikas Aghadi’s dream of wresting power fizzled, with the opposition combine managing to garner just 46 seats. The Election Commission announced that the BJP has won 132 seats, the Shiv Sena won 57, while the NCP got 41 seats. In the MVA, the Nationalist Congress Party (Sharadchandra Pawar) candidates won 10 seats, Congress won 16, while Shiv Sena (Uddhav Balasaheb Thackeray) won 20 seats.

Following is the party's position after the announcement of results for elections to the 288-member Maharashtra assembly:

• BJP 132
• Shiv Sena 57
• NCP 41
• Shiv Sena (UBT) 20
• Congress 16
• NCP (SP) 10
• Samajwadi Party 2
• Jan Surajya Shakti 2
• Rashtriya Yuva Swabhimani Party 1
• Rashtriya Samaj Paksha 1
• AIMIM 1
• CPI(M) 1
• PWP 1
• Rajarshi Shahu Vikas Aghadi 1
• Independents 2.

Hemant Soren’s JMM-led alliance retained power in Jharkhand winning 56 seats in the 81-member assembly, but the BJP's vote share in the eastern state was more than the JMM. The BJP contested 68 seats and registered a 33.18 per cent vote share as compared to JMM’s 23.44 per cent.  The BJP won 21 seats and emerged as the second largest party.

Hemant Soren’s JMM-led alliance on Saturday stormed to power in Jharkhand for a second consecutive term, winning 56 seats in the 81-member assembly, despite an all-out blitz by the BJP-led NDA which managed only 24 seats. The majority mark in the state assembly is 41 seats. Though the BJP failed to replicate the Maharashtra triumph, where it secured a landslide, its vote share in the eastern state was more than the JMM. The BJP contested 68 seats and registered a 33.18 per cent vote share as compared to JMM’s 23.44 per cent.  The BJP won 21 seats and emerged as the second largest party.