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Election results 2023: ‘Modi's Guarantee’ wins MP, Rajasthan, Chhattisgarh; Congress gets Telangana

With sweeping victory in the recently conducted assembly polls, the Bharatiya Janata Party has tightened its grip over India's populous northern belt.

Kamal Nath meets Kharge, Rahul; asked to step down as state chief

Arriving in the national capital on Tuesday, the Congress's state chief met the party's national president Mallikarjun Kharge and MP Rahul Gandhi at the former's residence

Any machine with chip can be hacked, says Digvijaya Singh on EVMs

Days after the Congress lost the Madhya Pradesh assembly elections, former Chief Minister and senior Congress leader Digvijaya Singh alleged that any machine with a chip can be hacked

Congress to discuss MP poll debacle at meeting in Bhopal on Dec 5

The Congress has convened a meeting of all 230 candidates on Tuesday to discuss the defeat in the Madhya Pradesh assembly elections and the reasons behind the poor performance, party leaders said. The meeting will also discuss how to strengthen the party and the way forward, a leader said. MP Congress president Kamal Nath is scheduled to address the meeting. Senior leaders Digvijaya Singh, Suresh Pachouri and others will discuss the causes of the party's debacle with the participants, sources said on Monday. The Congress has called a meeting on Tuesday of all the 230 candidates who contested the November 17 assembly polls," MP media cell chief KK Mishra confirmed to PTI. The BJP on Sunday cruised to a two-thirds majority in the MP assembly, winning 163 of the 230 seats, restricting the Congress to just 66. Your attendance is necessary at the important meeting. You are requested to arrive at the Pradesh Congress Committee at 11 am, as per a letter sent to the candidates on Monday.

Assembly election results 2023: How did sitting MPs perform in five states?

Assembly election results 2023: Several national parties fielded their sitting members of the Parliament in these assembly polls. Here's a look at how they performed

Urge all members to come prepared: PM Narendra Modi ahead of Winter Session

On the Assembly election results 2023, where the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) won in three states of Rajasthan, Chhattisgarh and Madhya Pradesh, PM Modi said that the country has rejected negativity

How BJP swept Hindi heartland, defying exit-polls for MP, Chhattisgarh

Most exit polls for Madhya Pradesh, where the ruling BJP was facing anti-incumbency of close to two decades, and Chhattisgarh had predicted a close finish and, possibly, a win for the Congress

Shivraj's 'Ladli Behna Yojana' becomes a game-changer for BJP in MP polls

The scheme was an instant hit, and within just a few months, over 1.3 crore women enrolled in the scheme, and the first tranche starting from June 2023

MP polls: Amid BJP landslide, Kamal Nath retains home turf Chhindwara

Madhya Pradesh Congress chief Kamal Nath maintained his several decade-old stranglehold on Chhindwara even as the Bharatiya Janata Party retained power in the state with an emphatic win. Nath defeated the BJP's Vivek Bunty Sahu by 36,594 votes. In the 2018 polls, Nath's victory margin against Sahu was 25,837 votes. Since 1980, Nath has won the Chhindwara Lok Sabha seat a record nine times.

MP polls: Union minister Tomar wins from Dimani, defeats BSP candidate

Union Minister Narendra Singh Tomar defeated the Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP) candidate Balveer Singh Dandotiya by 24,461 votes in Dimani in the Madhya Pradesh Assembly polls. Tomar is among the three Union ministers who were fielded in the Assembly polls by the Bharatiya Janata Party. Tomar held different posts before becoming the state president of Bharatiya Janata Yuva Morcha in 1991. In 1998 and 2003, Tomar was elected from Gwalior Assembly seat and became a cabinet minister in the state government. He was appointed the state BJP president in 2006 and was on the post again between 2012 and 2014. Tomar was elected to the Lok Sabha from Morena in 2008 and again from Gwalior in 2014 and was made a minister in the Narendra Modi government. He won the general elections in 2019 from Morena and was once again made a minister at the Centre.

Assembly elections highlights: BJP sweeps north, Congress takes Telangana

Assembly election results highlights: Bharatiya Janata Party has won a majority in Rajasthan, Madhya Pradesh, and Chhattisgarh. Congress crossed the halfway mark in Telangana

Madhya Pradesh Assembly results 2023: Saffron wave led by CM Chouhan sweeps

MP Assembly election results 2023: BJP leaders attributed the electoral success to PM Narendra Modi, who addressed as many as 14 poll rallies in the state

SP blames Kamal Nath's 'Akhilesh-Vakhilesh' comment for Cong rout in MP

Taking a dig at the Congress for its dismal show in the assembly polls, the Samajwadi Party on Sunday blamed grand old party leader Kamal Nath's "indecent statement" against its chief Akhilesh Yadav for the setback in Madhya Pradesh. The Samajwadi Party (SP) has, however, indicated it will fight the 2024 Lok Sabha elections along with the Congress under the banner of Opposition group 'INDIA'. "Former Madhya Pradesh Chief Minister Kamal Nath gave an indecent statement against the SP chief. He called the SP chief, who has been a four-time MP and the Chief Minister of Uttar Pradesh as 'Akhilesh-Vakhilesh' due to which not only Madhya Pradesh, but the people of Bahujan class and backward classes were hurt, and its adverse effect was reflected in the results, SP spokesperson Manoj Singh Yadav 'Kaka' told PTI on the Congress' lagging behind the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) in Madhya Pradesh, Rajasthan and Chhattisgarh. Kaka said the SP chief is continuously fighting for social justice, bu

MP Assembly election results 2023 Highlights: Saffron wave sweeps state

Madhya Pradesh Assembly election LIVE: The state voted for 230 Assembly seats on 25 November. Catch all the latest updates on results here

MP: Congress' Muslim candidates win from Bhopal's Central and North seats

The Congress' Arif Masood and Atif Arif Aqueel won the Assembly polls from Bhopal Central and Bhopal North, respectively, in Madhya Pradesh. Another Muslim leader from the Congress, Nafees Mansha, who had contested from the All India Majlis-e-Ittehadul Muslimeen after being denied a ticket by the grand old party, however, lost from Burhanpur. Masood defeated the Bharatiya Janata Party's Dhruv Narayan Sing by a margin of 15891 votes from Bhopal Central, while Aqueel won against the ruling party's Alok Sharma by 26,987 votes from Bhopal North. In Burhanpur, Mansha garnered 33,853 votes, which was higher than the victory margin of BJP's Archana Chitnis against her nearest rival from the Congress Thakur Surendra Singh. Chitnis defeated Singh by 31,171 votes. As per an estimate, Muslims, at 50 lakh, constitute some 7 per cent of MP's population, and are mainly concentrated in Bhopal and the Malwa region.

Madhya Pradesh Assembly election results 2023: Here's how leaders reacted

MP Assembly election results 2023: Kamal Nath, senior Congress leader and former CM of the state said that the party will analyse the loopholes

Rahul Gandhi accepts defeat in Madhya Pradesh, Rajasthan, and Chhattisgarh

Assembly election results: Rahul Gandhi thanked the people of Telangana for the Congress party's performance in the state

MP CM wins from Budhni for 6th time, defeats Cong's Mastal by 104,000 votes

Madhya Pradesh Chief Minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan won from Budhni seat for a sixth time by defeating Congress' actor-turned-politician Vikram Mastal by a margin of 1,04,974 votes. Chouhan, the longest serving CM of MP, first won from Budhni Assembly seat in 1990, before winning a bypoll in 2006 and retaining the seat in 2008,2013 and 2018. Chouhan was also Lok Sabha MP from Vidisha in 1991, 1996, 1998, 1999 and 2004. Fondly called 'mama' by his supporters, Chouhan was not projected as the party's CM face this time. He and several BJP leaders have routinely claimed his 'Ladli Behana Yojana', under which eligible women get Rs 1,250 per month, is a game changer.

MP polls would've been different had Cong contested with INDIA allies: Raut

Shiv Sena (UBT) leader Sanjay Raut on Sunday said that the outcome of the Madhya Pradesh assembly elections would have been different had the Congress shared some seats with constituents of the INDIA bloc. He also said the grand old party should revisit its outlook towards allies recalling that it was Kamal Nath who had opposed sharing of seats with Samajwadi Party during elections. Raut, however, added that the election results would not cause any rift among the members of the INDIA alliance. It is my clear opinion that the Madhya Pradesh elections should have been contested as INDIA alliance. Had some seats been shared with the alliance parties, such as Akhilesh's party, (Samajwadi Party), the Congress would have fared far better. His (Akhilesh's) party has good support in some areas, including some 10-12 seats known as the strongholds of the party. It was Kamal Nath who opposed sharing of seats with him (Akhilesh), he told reporters. Raut said the poll outcome has a lesson to le

Behind BJP's impressive show in MP are 14 rallies addressed by PM Modi

Prime Minister Narendra Modi addressed 14 rallies in Madhya Pradesh during campaigning for polls and reached out to young voters by reminding them of the failures of previous Congress governments on various fronts as he doubled down on development of all sections. Modi's appeal seemingly clicked with voters, including women, in the central state where the ruling BJP has won 33 seats and leading in 131 out of 230 constituencies where results are being declared on Sunday. The prime minister also led a roadshow after elections were announced last month in MP. As BJP devised a strategy to defeat anti-incumbency in Madhya Pradesh which has been under its belt since 2003, barring 18 months from December 2018 to March 2020, Modi reached out to various sections of voters, including women, youngsters, tribals, besides the traditional supporters of the saffron party. The BJP's campaign theme "MP ke mann mein Modi, Modi ke mann mein MP" received wide acceptance during the campaigning. On the