At the stock markets, the Sensex at the Bombay Stock Exchange opened with a huge loss of 867 points, this morning, as reports of vote counting pointed to a close fight between the BJP and the Congress in the Gujarat and Himachal Pradesh state elections. But later, as available trends showed the BJP surging ahead in both the states, the Sensex recovered smartly, and had jumped 212 points, or 0.6 percent, to 33,675, a short while ago. The Nifty at the National Stock Exchange had climbed 74 points, to 10,407.And at the forex market, the rupee also recovered smartly from sharp initial losses, and was down just 7 paise, to 64.11 against the dollar a short while ago. In early trade, the rupee had tumbled as much as 68 paise.