Assembly election Results Haryana BJP INC INLD 90 TOTAL Others 48 37 2 3 BJP (+8) Congress (+6) chennai l Wednesday l October 09, 2024 l `9.00 l PAGES 20 l late city EDITION INLD Cong vote share in Haryana just 0.85% behind BJP, but seat difference 11 NC improves its vote share by 2.66%, adds 27 seats to its 2014 tally BJP 1, Congress 0 ‘Double-engine’ sarkar National Conference for 3rd consecutive time gets the right to rule H a r p r e e t B a j w a @ Chandigarh (+1) OTHERS No surprise expected Nayab Singh Saini, Haryana CM HARYANA Prime Minister Modi praised the leadership of Haryana Chief BJP: +3.45% Minister Nayab Singh Saini, who is set to retain his chair Cong: +11.01% jammu & kashmir AAP BJP CPI(M) Cong NC PDP Swing factor F aya z W a n i @ Srinagar Despite facing huge anti-incumbency farmers’ unrest, protest , In the first assembly polls in Jammu and Kashmir after Article by wrestlers and widespread discontent over the Agniveer 370’s abrogation, the National Conference did spectacularly well scheme, the BJP managed to retain power for the third consecuto bag 42 seats and get the right to form the new government tive term in Haryana. No party has won with the Congress, a third consecutive term in the state its alliance partner. ever since its inception in 1966. This For all the highmandate for the ‘double-engine sarkar’ pitched campaign could have a bearing on the forthcoming polls in Jharkhand, by the BJP, its ‘Naya Kashmir’ narrative managed to add just Maharashtra and Delhi. four seats, taking its tally to 29. While the BJP got 48 seats — 8 more than 2019 — and crossed NC leader Omar Abdullah would be the new chief minister. the halfway mark of 46, it was just 0.85% ahead of the Congress The Congress performed poorly in the Jammu region, picking in terms of vote share. The Congress had a whopping 11.01% up just one of its six seats there — Rajouri (ST). The other five positive swing, yet it could add just six seats to its 2019 tally of came from the Kashmir valley CPI (M) leader Mohammad You. 31. The AAP scored a duck but polled 1.79% votes. At hindsight, suf Tarigami, who is an ally of NC-Congress, retained his Kulhad the Congress done a deal with AAP it could have possibly , gam seat for the fifth consecutive time. The tally could go up as made a winning combination. at least two NC and Congress rebels each contested and Analysts blamed the Congress debacle on its infightwon. They are likely to return to their parties. ing, flawed ticket distribution and party leader Bhupinder The NC’s strike rate was very high, having contested Singh Hooda’s undue emphasis on the Jat vote bank, from just 51 seats. It had a positive swing of 2.66% votes which comprises almost 27% of the state’s electorate. as compared to the last assembly elections in 2014, but in Sirsa MP and the party’s SC face Kumari Selja’s animosterms of seats it captured 27 more. Besides, the NC and ity with Hooda appears to have played a key role in the Congress had friendly fights on five seats. Omar’s party party’s loss. The Muslim vote bank, however, remained also won seven seats in the Jammu region. firmly behind the Congress. The election result is a setback for the BJP Its president . Talking to this daily Dr S S Chahar, former director of , in J&K Ravindra Raina lost to NC’s Surinder Chodhary the Centre for Haryana Studies in Rohtak, said, “The mi- Haryana mandate from his home constituency in Nowshera in Rajouri. cro management by the ruling BJP was perfect. Also, the is remarkable. For Jubilant NC and Congress workers danced and burst the first time, a RSS played a vital role in sorting out intra-party differcrackers to celebrate their voctory “The result has shown . govt got the ences in the BJP The migrant and floating votes went to . that the NC is a force to reckon with and can’t be crushed,” opportunity for the party And the BJP vote was silent this time. Besides, . said a party worker Ghulam Ahmed. Omar, who had inithe third Chief Minister Nayab Singh Saini was accessible to the tially reluctant to enter the assembly poll fray till the resconsecutive term public.” The party also managed to get SC votes and the toration of statehood, contested from two seats — Budgam Narendra Modi support of women self-help groups in villages. and Ganderbal — and won both. Swing factor NC: +2.66% BJP: +2.66% Cong: -6.04% PDP: -13.8% JAMMU & KASHMIR Others National Conference 42 29 6 3 1 1 8 (+27) BJP (+4) Congress (-6) PDP 90 TOTAL (-25) AAP Omar rises from the ashes, set to be CM Omar Abdullah, National Conference leader NC president Farooq Abdullah announced that his son Omar Abdullah will be the CM, a post the latter held between 2009 and 2014. “The priority of the new government is to fulfill people’s expectations,” Omar told reporters in Budgam (1) CPI(M) (0) OTHERS However, J&K Congress chief Tariq Hamid Karra said the CM’s post needs to be discussed between the partners CHENNAI ■ MADURAI ■ VIJAYAWADA BENGALURU ■ KOCHI ■ HYDERABAD ■ VISAKHAPATNAM ■ COIMBATORE ■ KOZHIKODE ■ THIRUVANANTHAPURAM ■ BELAGAVI ■ BHUBANESWAR ■ SHIVAMOgGA ■ MANGALURU ■ TIRUPATI ■ TIRUCHY ■ TIRUNELVELI ■ SAMBALPUR ■ HUBBALLI ■ DHARMAPURI ■ KOTTAYAM ■ KANNUR ■ VILLUPURAM ■ KOLLAM ■ TADEPALLIGUDEM ■ NAGAPATTINAM ■ THRISSUR ■ KALABURAGI ■ ■ EPS relieves MLA Thalavai Sundaram of AIADMK posts E X PRE S S NEW S S ER V I C E @ Chennai/Kanniyakumari AIADMK general secretary Edappadi K Palaniswami on Tuesday temporarily relieved party MLA and senior functionary Thalavai N Sundaram from all party posts, for acting against the ideology and principles of the AIADMK besides violating the party’s bylaws. Sundaram has been suspended as AIADMK’s organising secretary as well as the Kanniyakumari East district secretary. His suspension comes two days after he f l a g g e d o f f a R a s h t r i ya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS) rally in Kanniyakumari. Since the AIADMK snapped ties with the BJP in September 2023, Palaniswami has time and again asserted that the party would not have any truck with the BJP in the future, including for the 2026 Assembly elections. At this juncture, Sundaram flagging off the RSS rally may have been seen as embarrassing to the party. However, Palaniswami’s statement does not mention any particular reason for the suspension except that Sundaram acted against party principles. Since an inquiry has to be made, he has been relieved from all party posts temporarily, it added.  P7 Two AI scientists bag Physics Nobel P13 Scan Here For An AR Experience