Assembly election results: BJP may take Haryana after tough fight

The BJP was set to form the government with some of the independents and small parties

The Bharatiya Janata Party’s slogan of winning 75 of the 90 Assembly seats in Haryana fell flat on Thursday that had party chief summon state Chief Minister (CM) Manohar Lal Khattar to the national capital. Only three of the 12 ministers in the latter’s council of ministers could get re-elected.

A majority eluded the BJP even as it emerged the single-largest party, improving its vote share by three percentage points over its 2014 Assembly performance — it had won an unprecedented 47 seats in 2014 to form its first full majority government in the state.

The BJP was set to