"People of the country have shown their mood," says Nitin Gadkari on BJP's victory in 3 states
Dec 03, 2023
Gandhinagar (Gujarat) [India], December 3 : After the Bharatiya Janta Party swept all three states in the Assembly elections on Sunday, registering a mega win, Union Minister Nitin Gadkari said that the people have shown their "mood" through these elections.
"The people of the country have shown their mood through these elections. We have success in Rajasthan, Chhattisgarh and Madhya Pradesh. People have supported our schemes," Gadkari told reporters here.
He said that as the Centre and these states are going to be ruled by the same party, the BJP, the development would take place at a faster pace.
"I thank Prime Minister Narendra Modi. party President JP Nadda, party workers, and people of these states Now the development will happen at a faster pace here because a double-engine government will be formed," he added.
In the Assembly elections in four states--Telangana, Madhya Pradesh, Rajasthan, and Chhattisgarh--the counting of which is in the final stages, as per the Election Commission data, the BJP is leading in majorities of the seats in three North Indian states, indicating that it would form governments in these states.
While in Rajasthan and Chhattisgarh, the BJP is defeating the incumbent Congress governments, in Madhya Pradesh, it has defeated the anti-incumbency in retaining power.
However, in the South Indian state of Telangana, the Congress saw consolation as emerged victorious dethronin BRS's decade-old rule.
In Rajasthan, the BJP is leading by 115 seats out of 199 seats clearly on the way to ousting the incumbent Ashok Gehlot government. The Congress is leading in 69 seats in the state.
In the Chhattisgarh election, though the majority of the exit polls predicted the Congress would retain the government, the results show otherwise.
As per the latest ECI update, the BJP is leading in 55 seats out of 90 and the Congress is leading in 35 seats.
In Telangana, the incumbent BRS has conceded defeat as the ECI update showed that Congress is leading in 64 seats in the 119-member assembly. BRS is leading in 39 seats, and the BJP and BRS are leading in 8 and 7 seats respectively.
