{"id":306889,"date":"2018-12-12T05:14:18","date_gmt":"2018-12-12T05:14:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/?p=306889"},"modified":"2018-12-12T05:14:18","modified_gmt":"2018-12-12T05:14:18","slug":"assembly-election-results-congress-closes-on-3-0","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/assembly-election-results-congress-closes-on-3-0\/","title":{"rendered":"Assembly Election Results: Congress closes on 3-0"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\" wp-image-306862 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/Congress-300x203.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"513\" height=\"347\" srcset=\"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2018\/12\/Congress-300x203.jpg 300w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2018\/12\/Congress.jpg 696w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2018\/12\/Congress-619x420.jpg 619w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 513px) 100vw, 513px\" \/><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">The Congress has emerged as the single largest party in the three heartland states of Chhattisgarh, Rajasthan and Madhya Pradesh on Tuesday in elections that are seen as semi-finals before next year&#8217;s Lok Sabha elections.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">The Congress party won Chhattisgarh and Rajasthan, it bagged 114 seats in Madhya Pradesh and BJP which had been in power for 15 years, won 109 seats.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">In Chhattisgarh, the Congress won an absolute majority in the 90-member house with Chief Minister Raman Singh conceding defeat just as Vasundhra Raje did in Rajasthan.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">In Telangana, K Chandrashekhar Rao won a huge mandate and in Mizoram, the tribal Mizo National Front bagged the winning seat.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Madhya Pradesh Congress chief Kamal Nath wrote to Governor Anandiben Patel late Tuesday night, claiming it has the support of Independent candidates. The Governor asked them to wait till declaration of the final results.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Prime Minister Narendra Modi said, \u201cWe accept the people\u2019s mandate with humility. I thank the people of Chhattisgarh, Madhya Pradesh and Rajasthan for giving us the opportunity to serve these states. The BJP Governments in these states worked tirelessly for the welfare of the people.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">He further said, \u201cThe family of BJP Karyakartas worked day and night for the state elections. I salute them for their hardwork. Victory and defeat are an integral part of life. Today\u2019s results will further our resolve to serve people and work even harder for the development of India.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Congress has emerged as the single largest party in the three heartland states of Chhattisgarh, Rajasthan and Madhya Pradesh on Tuesday in elections that are seen as semi-finals before next year&#8217;s Lok Sabha elections. The Congress party won Chhattisgarh and Rajasthan, it bagged 114 seats in Madhya Pradesh and BJP which had been in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":37,"featured_media":306862,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1801],"tags":[2758,236],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/306889"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/users\/37"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=306889"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/306889\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":306890,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/306889\/revisions\/306890"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media\/306862"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=306889"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=306889"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=306889"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}