Chief Minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan had asked the electorate to give him a third straight term and fought the elections on the plank of development of the state.
The state recorded 72.52 per cent polling which Congress claimed as a result of anti-incumbency mood in the state, raising a ray of hope for the party to come back to power after ten years.
However, political analysts had rejected the claim saying the high percentage of polling was a mandate in favour of BJP’s Shivraj Singh Chouhan who has done a good job as chief minister of a state sticken by poverty.
Congress had projected Union minister Jyotiraditya Scindia, known for his proximity to Congress vice president Rahul Gandhi and son of late Madhav Rao Scindia of the Gwalior royal dynasty and a senior leader.
The “exit poll of polls,” an average of exit polls conducted by different agencies, shows the BJP grabbing 141 of the state’s 230 assembly seats. It shows the Congress getting 77. The half-way mark for the state assembly is 115.
However, BJP is engaged in a neck to neck fight in Chhattisgarh where both BJP and Congress were leading in 26 seats each by 11:45 am Sunday as the NCP was leading in one seat of the 90-member state asembly.
The saffron party is certainly going to form governments in Rajasthan and Madhya Pradesh with clear majority.
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