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Assam Governor accepts Himanta Biswa Sarma s claim for chief ministership ANI | Updated: May 09, 2021 21:27 IST
Guwahati (Assam) [India], May 9 (ANI): Assam Governor Jagdish Mukhi on Sunday accepted Chief Minister-designate and senior Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) leader Himanta Biswa Sarma s claim for chief ministership and asked him to form the government.
Himanta Biswa Sarma, elected as the leader of the BJP legislative party in Assam, will take his oath as Chief Minister at 12 noon on Monday. As the National Democratic Alliance had a clear majority in the Assam Legislative Assembly, he also staked claim to form the government. The Governor accepted his claim and asked him to form the government, Mukhi said in a Facebook post.
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BJP s 2nd Stint in Assam, But Who Will be the CM, Sonowal or Himanta Biswa? Central Team Reaching Today
BJP created history by winning Assam the second time in a row. This is the first time that a non-Congress party has bagged Assam twice consecutively and that too with 60 seats, just 4 short of the target of 64 in the 126-member Assam Assembly
| 3 May 2021 6:38 AM GMT
Guwahati: The verdict was clear. It is another term for the BJP-led NDA in Assam. BJP won 60 of the total 126 seats and its allies AGP won 9 and UPPL won 6 seats.
With a total of 73, NDA (National Democratic Alliance made up of BJP and its allies) is once again in a very comfortable position to form the government in Assam for the second time in a row. This is the first time that a non-Congress party has romped back to power in Assam.
The ruling Trinamool Congress was ahead of the BJP in the keenly watched state of West Bengal while the DMK had an edge in Tamil Nadu as trends poured in for counting of votes on Sunday in the high-stakes assembly elections in four states and a union territory. In Assam, the ruling BJP-led NDA was leading in 22 seats, while the Grand Alliance spearheaded by the Congress is ahead in 15 places, according to initial trends available from counting of postal ballots in Assam, officials said. The ruling LDF in Kerala was leading in 75 of the total 140 seats while opposition UDF was ahead in 56 segments as counting of votes for the April 6 assembly elections got underway.
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New Delhi:
Mamata Banerjee s Trinamool Congress is ahead in West Bengal, where the BJP seems to have made gains since the 2019 national elections. In Tamil Nadu, the opposition DMK is way ahead with party chief MK Stalin and son leading in their respective seats. In neighbouring Kerala, the ruling Left-led LDF front - which is hoping to end a four-decade trend by retaining power - is past the halfway mark, early trends from the state show
In Assam, the BJP is ahead of its nearest rival Congress, which campaigned hard to reclaim its one-time bastion.