INDIA bloc ahead in Jharkhand assembly polls

The INDIA bloc—which includes the Congress, Rashtriya Janata Dal, and the incumbent regional party Jharkhand Mukti Morcha—was set to retake power in the eastern state, defying anti-incumbency sentiment, according to trends in the assembly election vote tally.
Following the start of the vote-counting process at 8:00am, the BJP, which had used infiltration as its primary electoral platform in Jharkhand, had acquired an early lead. However, the JMM, led by Chief Minister Hemant Soren, gradually regained the advantage.
However, at 11:30am, the trend showed that INDIA had risen to 51 of the 81 seats in the state assembly, considerably above the 41-seat majority, while the BJP-led NDA had taken the lead in 28.
Jharkhand held the polls in two phases on November 13 and 20.
The BJP-led alliance looks to easily maintain control in Maharashtra, the wealthiest state in India, where elections for the 288-member legislature were held on November 20. The BJP alone is probably going to surpass 100 seats, making it the state’s largest party but falling far short of a 145-seat majority.
In the November 20 by-election, Congresswoman Priyanka Gandhi Vadra, who was running for the first time from Kerala’s Wayanad Lok Sabha seat, easily defeated her opponents, who had a lead of over two lakh votes.