The BJP appeared set Sunday to wrest Rajasthan from the Congress with counting trends in the afternoon showing the party leading on 111 seats, way past the Congress which was ahead in 73 constituencies.
If the initial trends released by the Election Commission hold, the party is comfortably past the halfway mark of 100. Polling was held for 199 of the 200 seats in the state assembly on November 25.
Celebrations broke out at the BJP’s state headquarter as the party crossed the majority-mark, in terms of trends.
Groups of women workers at that office raised slogans hailing Prime Minister Narendra Modi. The BJP is going to get a thumping victory and will form the government, a party worker said.
Union minister Gajendra Singh Shekhawat took a dig at Chief Minister Ashok Gehlot, saying his magic is over.
The ‘magic’ has ended and Rajasthan has come out of the spell of the magician. People have voted for the honour of women and for the welfare of the poor, he said.
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