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Updated: Nov 24, 2024 02:07 IST
New Delhi [India], November 24 (.): As the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP)-led Mahayuti alliance emerged victorious in the Maharashtra assembly elections, Delhi BJP President Virendraa Sachdeva expressed confidence that people in the national capital would also elect a BJP government in the upcoming Delhi assembly elections.
As the Delhi assembly election is due in February 2025, he noted that the people of Delhi want a clean and corrupt-free Delhi.
Speaking to ., Virendraa Sachdeva said, “PM Modi’s address fills the BJP workers of Delhi with enthusiasm. Now the time has come for the people of Delhi to give a befitting reply to those who are ruining Delhi. The people want a clean, corruption-free Delhi. After Maharashtra and Haryana, the people will elect a BJP government in Delhi too… BJP will get huge support in the upcoming Delhi assembly elections…”
Notably, the ruling Mahayuti alliance won the Maharashtra assembly polls and is poised for a landslide mandate. BJP led the Mahayuti alliance to a smashing victory, carrying its allies–Shiv Sena and NCP–with its momentum.
Following the landslide victory, Prime Minister Narendra Modi joined celebrations at BJP headquarters following party-led Mahayuti’s landslide victory in Maharashtra assembly elections and said the people of the state have defeated “negative and parivarvad politics.”
Reacting to Modi’s address, BJP MP from North East Delhi, Manoj Tiwari, called the Maharashtra victory “historic.”
“…As Prime Minister Modi has said, after 50 years, a party or alliance has got such a huge mandate. The victory in the Maharashtra assembly elections is historic… The public is choosing those for whom the nation comes first,” Tiwari told ..
The BJP has won 132 seats, Shiv Sena, led by Chief Minister Eknath Shinde, has won 57 seats, and the NCP, led by Deputy Chief Minister Ajit Pawar, won 41 seats. The state has 288 assembly seats.
The constituents of Maha Vikas Aghadi (MVA) suffered a rude jolt with Shiv Sena (UBT) led by Uddhav Thackeray winning 20 seats, Congress 16, and NCP(SP) led by Sharad Pawar only 10 seats.
The BJP saw a fabulous strike rate with the party winning 133 of the 148 seats it contested in Maharashtra. The party’s allies Shiv Sena and NCP also have a very good strike rate.
The assembly elections in Maharashtra were held on November 20.
Notably, the Jharkhand Mukti Morch-led alliance is set to retain the power. The assembly polls were conducted in two phases in Jharkhand. The first phase was held on November 13 and the second phase on November 20. (.)
