"The BJP has a faith on J&K people's support. The way people supported the rallies of Amit Shah, JP Nadda, I have a faith that BJP will emerge as the largest party in J&K. The independent candidates who fought with the support of the BJP will win and we will form the government together," said Jammu and Kashmir BJP chief Ravinder Raina.
Source: PTI
Speaking on BJP's election manifesto in Jharkhand, Union Minister and Incharge for Jharkhand Assembly elections, Shivraj Singh Chouhan said, "BJP is going to release its election manifesto. This election is not only about making someone a CM or of power, but it is about saving Jharkhand. We are determined to protect 'Roti, Mati aur Beti'."
"Due to the infiltrators from Bangladesh, the demography of the region is changing rapidly. Earlier, the tribal population in the Santhal region was more than 44%. Now, it has been reduced to 28%...The population is badly affected by these infiltrators...The Hemant Soren government is favouring the infiltrators for vote bank politics...We will implement the NRC in Jharkhand," he added.
Source: ANI
Ahead of Haryana poll results on October 8, Congress leader Bhupinder Singh Hooda, a frontrunner for the chief minister's post, on Sunday left for Delhi where he is likely to meet party leadership.
The Congress veteran and former chief minister Hooda will have his night stay at his Delhi residence, sources said.
He is likely to meet the party's senior leadership before he returns to his Rohtak residence Monday afternoon, they said.
An aide of Hooda said that he left for Delhi from Rohtak residence in the evening.
Source: PTI
Haryana may witness the return of Congress to power after a decade while Jammu and Kashmir is staring at a hung assembly where the National Conference-Congress combine may have to look at PDP and others to form a government, exit polls predicted on Saturday.
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RJD president Lalu Prasad on Sunday asserted that the exit polls results that predicted victory of Congress in the Haryana assembly elections should be viewed as a defeat of Prime Minister Narendra Modi.
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Jammu and Kashmir Congress chief Tariq Hamid Karra said the NC-Congress alliance will get a “comfortable majority” in the assembly elections, and added that the doors are open for like-minded parties and individuals to keep the BJP out of power.