BJP, which contested assembly polls on its own in Haryana for the first time, is set to form government, winning 45 seats and leading in 02 others in the 90-member assembly.
The prominent winners in Haryana assembly election are- Chief Minister and Congress candidate Bhupinder Singh Hooda from Garhi Sampla Kiloi, National spokesperson of Congress and candidate from Kaithal Randeep Singh Surjewala.
Kiran Chaudhry, daughter in law of former Chief Minister Bansi lal won from Tosham. Indian National Lok Dal candidates Abhay Singh Chautala won for the third time from Ellenabad, while Naina Chautala wife of Ajay Chautala who contested on behalf of her husband who is serving sentence in teacher recruitment scam won from Dabwali defeating Congress candidate Kamalvir Singh. Bhartiya Janta Party senior leader from Ambala cantt. Anil Vij, probable Chief Ministerial candidates Captain Abhimanyu Singh, O P Dhankar and M L Khattar and BJP state president Ram Bilas Sharma have won. Congress turncoat Chaudhry Birender Singh’s wife Prem Lata defeated Hissar MP and INLD candidate Dushyant Chautala and won Uchana Kalan Assembly seat. Haryana Janhit Congress could only manage two seats. Party Chief Kuldeep Bishnoi won from Adampur seat and his wife Renuka Bishnoi from Hansi constituency.
The main losers in these elections were Hisar Congress candidate Savitri Jindal, Indian National Lok Dal State President Ashok Arora, Haryana Janhit Congress senior leader and brother of Kuldeep Bishnoi Chander Mohan, newly formed Haryana Janchetna Party supremo Vinod Sharma and his wife Shakti Rani Sharma. Haryana Lokhit Party supremo Gopal Kanda lost to INLD candidate Makhan Lal Singla from Sirsa assembly constituency.
Union Minister Sushma Swaraj's sister and BJP candidate Vandana Sharma has lost in the Safidon constituency. She lost to Independent candidate Jasbir Deswal.
In Maharashtra, BJP is heading to emerge as a single largest party in the Assembly polls. The party has won 91 seats out of 218 results declared so far and leading in 32. Its former ally Shiv Sena has won 47 seats and leading in 14. The ruling Congress has won 36 seats and leading in 07 followed by its former ally NCP winning 29 and leading in 12. Raj Thackeray's Maharashtra Navnirman Sena has won one seat. All India Majlis-e-Ittehadul Muslimeen fighting for the first time in the Maharashtra polls has won one seat and leading in two.
