"Sabka Saath, Sabka Vikas, Sabka Vishwas with PM Modi": Goa CM Pramod Sawant on election results
Dec 03, 2023
Panaji (Goa) [India], December 3 : Goa Chief Minister Pramod Sawant said that the BJP's performance in Madhya Pradesh, Rajasthan and Chhattisgarh showed that people have faith in Prime Minister Narendra Modi.
The Goa CM further expressed his gratitude to the people of Madhya Pradesh, Rajasthan, and Chhattisgarh for placing their trust in the BJP.
"'Sabka Saath, Sabka Vikas, Sabka Vishwas' is with PM Modi and people have faith in PM Modi's guarantee of development," said Sawant here on Sunday.
He also appreciated the improvement of the party's position in Telangana.
"BJP has got a landslide victory, for which I would like to congratulate and appreciate the efforts of PM Modi, our party president JP Nadda, Union Home Minister Amit Shah and all the state leaders whether it be Shivraj Singh Chouhan, Raman Singh or Vasundhara Raje Scindia and all the other senior leaders," said Sawant.
"We had already said that BJP will form government in three states and the party's performance will be good in two states," he added.
The Goa CM further claimed that the confidence shown by people in PM Modi is a clear indication that BJP will be winning in the upcoming Lok Sabha Elections.
"BJP is certainly forming government in the three states and the party performed very well in Telangana as well. BJP will soon emerge in a better position in the southern states in the upcoming elections. I can say with certainty that BJP will get a lot of seats in South India in future," said Sawant.
In the Assembly elections in four states--Telangana, Madhya Pradesh, Rajasthan, and Chhattisgarh--the counting of which is almost concluded, as per the Election Commission data, the BJP has emerged victorious in majorities of the seats in three North Indian states.
While in Rajasthan and Chhattisgarh, the BJP defeated the incumbent Congress governments, in Madhya Pradesh, it defeated the anti-incumbency in retaining power.
However, in the South Indian state of Telangana, the Congress saw consolation and emerged victorious dethroning BRS's decade-old rule.
Despite the perceived anti-incumbency in Madhya Pradesh, the BJP has won 160 seats in the state while it is still leading in three other seats whose result is yet to be declared. The Congress has won 64 seats in the state while leading on two other seats.
In Rajasthan, the BJP has won 115 seats out of 199 seats clearly on the way to ousting the incumbent Ashok Gehlot government. The Congress won 68 seats while the party is still leading on one seat whose result is yet to be declared.
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 won 53 out of 90 seats while still leading on one seat whose result will soon be declared. The Congress has won 35 seats in the state.
In Telangana, the incumbent BRS was dethroned by Congress as the ECI update showed that Congress won 64 seats in the 119-member assembly. BRS won 39 seats, and the BJP won 8 seats.