YEAR ENDER 2018 | Rajasthan Assembly polls: Congress takes back helm from BJP
Elections | December 27, 2018 9:28 ISTWith 99 seats (1 shot of majority) the Congress became the single largest party of the state.
With 99 seats (1 shot of majority) the Congress became the single largest party of the state.
Congress' Ashok Gehlot took oath as Chief Minister of Rajasthan in presence of Congress president Rahul Gandhi and opposition leaders. Sachin Pilot was sworn in as the Deputy CM of Rajasthan. It took place at Jaipur's Albert Hall ground.
Congress president Rahul Gandhi will attend the swearing-in ceremony of Ashok Gehlot and Sachin Pilot as Rajasthan CM and Dy CM respectively in Jaipur at 10 am. He will also attend the oath ceremony of Kamal Nath as Madhya Pradesh CM at 1:30 pm on the same day.
The Congress chief had earlier held a series of meetings with CM aspirants in Rajasthan -- Ashok Gehlot and Sachin Pilot -- but no consensus emerged between the two and Pilot asserted his right for the top post.
The announcement was made during the meeting of the newly-elected MLAs in Bhopal Thursday night
With 99 seats, in Rajasthan, the Congress has emerged as the single-largest party, though they are one seat short of a majority.
In Rajasthan assembly elections, at least 15 constituencies polled more NOTA (None Of The Above) votes than the victory margin of the winning candidates.
The Congress is all set to form government in Rajasthan and Madhya Pradesh, however, the party is yet to decide the CM for either of the two states.
As many as 13 of 19 ministers in the outgoing Vasundhara Raje government have lost the Assembly elections in Rajasthan as results and trends brought electoral reverses for the ruling BJP.
Gehlot indicated towards assembling an alliance by taking along willing parties and the candidates who have parted ways with the BJP.
The former royal, who is usually called Maharani, is expected to win her seat Jhalrapatan with a handsome margin but her party appeared headed for a loss to the Congress on Tuesday.
The Congress appeared set to wrest Rajasthan and Chhattisgarh from the BJP, which was trailing marginally in Madhya Pradesh in a cliffhanger.
The trend that BJP and Congress parties are voted to power alternately appears to continue in the state. Neither the BJP or the Congress have been able to win consecutive Assembly elections in Rajasthan since 1993.
Post noon, Congress candidates were leading over their rivals in 95 of the 197 constituencies, from where trends were available, and the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) in 78 others.
He said the Congress was marching towards victory in Rajasthan, Chhattisgarh and Madhya Pradesh and the trend would continue in the future in the rest of India.
He also credited Gandhi for the party's good performance in all the five states, including Rajasthan.
The grand old party believes it would surpass the exit poll predictions when the election results are declared on Tuesday.
The decision was taken after it came to notice that electronic voting machines (EVMs) were not cleared of mock poll when the actual polling began, election department sources said.
According to the poll panel, a sector officer carrying a reserve machine had gone to the BJP candidate's house following which the sector officer was removed and the EVM taken out of election system.
The exit poll was conducted today in 670 polling states covering 67 assembly seats. A questionnaire was distributed to 8040 men and women in the age group 18-60 years.
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