Election Results 2024 Reactions: The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) defied exit polls and emerged victorious for the third time in Haryana. Whereas, the NC-Congress alliance has crossed the majority mark with 48 seats in Jammu and Kashmir.
In Haryana, the BJP has won 37 seats and is leading in 12 seats, whereas the Indian National Congress won 31 seats and is leading in five more, according to Election Commission data as of 5:30 pm on Tuesday. In Jammu and Kashmir, the National Conference (JKN) has won 41 seats and is leading in 1 seat, and Congress has won six seats. With this, the total number of NC-INC alliances has crossed the majority mark of 46.
The current Haryana Assembly elections vote counting data is in complete contrast to the initial trends which indicated Congress party's lead in the state.
After the initial trends indicating Congress's lead, party workers were spotted celebrating outside AICC headquarters Tuesday morning.
In Jammu and Kashmir, most exit polls have indicated a hung parliament or the majority of the NC-Congress alliance. However, the assembly election vote-counting trends appeared to change after 10 am as the BJP started leading in more numbers of seats in Haryana.
Meanwhile, several BJP leaders have expressed their confidence in victory in Jammu and Kashmir and Haryana, despite contradictory exit polls results for assembly election results in Haryana and Jammu and Kashmir.
Expressing confidence over Congress party's victory in the assembly elections, Congress leader Pramod Tiwari said,"I am confident that Congress will win around 65 assembly seats and form the government in Haryana. In J&K, JKNC and Congress alliance will cross the majority mark and I am confident that those who are against BJP will also ally with the Congress-JKNC alliance...We are forming the government in J&K and Haryana."
Former CM and Congress candidate Bhupinder Singh Hooda said, " As per the current trends, Congress is going to form the govt...the party will decide (CM face)...Congress will bring its own majority...credit goes to party, Rahul Gandhi, Mallikarjun Kharge, all party leaders and people of Haryana..."
There were visuals of Congress party workers celebrating the early election trends outside AICC headquarters Tuesday morning. However, the party's spirit dampened after BJP started leading on 48 seats against Congress in Haryana later in the day.
“We can see the people of Haryana teaching a lesson to Congress. In the morning, they (Congress) opened their 'Jhooth ki dukaan'...Within Congress, there are people who want Hooda to lose, and they were the ones who were bursting crackers,” said BJP leader Anil Vij.
“This is the victory of democracy...History is being made today as the trends are indicating that the BJP government will be formed in Haryana for the third time...The elections in J&K are historic. BJP is performing better than the previous elections in J&K. We will emerge as the single largest party,” said BJP leader Gaurav Bhatia.
Party workers began celebration across the country after the Election Commission's vote counting trends indicate clear majority for the BJP in Haryana assembly elections.
Celebrations kick in Jammu and Kashmir after the National Conference-Congress secured a majority in the assembly elections. NC chief Farooq Abdullah said his son and senior party leader Omar Abdullah would be the next Chief Minister.
To celebrate Congress-NC alliance's lead in J&K, Trichy Congress president L Rex distributed Kashmiri apples among the people.
All 90 seats in Haryana went to polls on October 5. According to Election Commission of India data, the state witnessed a 68 per cent turnout. There was a three-phase assembly election voting in Jammu and Kashmir, on September 18, 25 and October 1. J&K recorded a voter turnout of 63.88 per cent, which was higher than the voter turnout in the Lok Sabha elections.
The incumbent Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) has won the Haryana assembly elections in both 2014 and 2019. With the prevailing anti-incumbency wave in the state, Congress is hoping to return after spending a decade in opposition in the state. Alongside the BJP and Congress, the Arvind Kejriwal-led Aam Aadmi Party (AAP), Jannayak Janata Party (JJP), and the Indian National Lok Dal (INLD) are also in the fray.
The Congress alliance with National Conference is leading in Jammu and Kashmir, according to Election Commission's Assembly Elections vote counting data as on 11 am.
These Assembly elections will be the first for J&K in ten years after the abrogation of Article 370 in August 2019. In 2014, the People's Democratic Party (PDP) and the BJP formed a rare coalition government with the late Mufti Mohammad Sayeed as the Chief Minister of Jammu and Kashmir. However, the government did not last long, as the BJP withdrew from the alliance in 2018.
