Assembly Election Results 2019: The process of govt formation is underway in Maharashtra and Haryana. While BJP is set to return in Maharashtra, it's not yet clear as to who will form govt in Haryana
BJP president Amit Shah announced at a press conference held with JJP leader Dushyant Chautala that the chief minister will be from his party and the deputy chief minister from the regional party
Their third sibling is the popular Bollywood actor-producer Ritesh Deshmukh
Chief Minister Manohar Lal Khattar will be elected the BJP legislative party leader at a meeting in Chandigarh on Saturday and will then stake claim before the governor to form the government
Chuatala said he had so far not spoken to either the BJP or the Congress on the matter
In PM Modi's first electoral test since sweeping to a second term in office in May, BJP fell short of a majority in the 90 seat assembly in Haryana
After the poll results came out on Thursday, the ruling BJP fell six short of the halfway mark needed to form the next government
PM Modi indicated Maharashtra CM and Haryana CM would continue
Aaditya Thackeray has been given charge of the Yuva Sena and is tussling with the Akhil Bharatiya Vidyarthi Parishad
The Congress, which had won 10 seats in the region in 2014, won 17 this time
The biggest shocker is in Haryana where at least three exit polls predicted decimation of the opposition, but the BJP is set to win 40 seats in the 90-member assembly and the Congress 31 seats
In Maharashtra, Modi said that a chief minister has completed full term for the first time in 50 years
Latest Election Commission trends said the saffron party had won or was leading in 40 seats. It had won 47 seats in the 2014 Haryana Assembly polls.
In an election expected to be a one-sided affair with a BJP-Shiv Sena sweep, the Nationalist Congress Party on Thursday was poised to win 53 seats, just four behind the Shiv Sena
As counting progressed, Chautala, 31, remained non- committal on which of the two main parties his JJP will support in case of a hung House
BJP's tally in both Maharashtra and Haryana was less than the number of seats they won in 2014 assembly elections
The Congress leader said that people's mandate is against Manohar Lal Khattar's government in the state
Wrestler Yogeshwar Dutt and Babita Phogat are trailing while former Indian Hockey team captain Sandeep Singh is leading. All three of them are contesting on BJP tickets in Haryana
The 10-month-old JJP was ahead in at least 10 seats, according to the trends, placing the party leader Dushyant Chautala in the kingmaker's role
I have not resigned from the post and the news of my resignation is a rumour, says Subhash Barala