After the results

Trinamool lost three seats by just 50 votes

ITANAGAR: The Trinamool Congress which won five seats in the Arunachal Assembly elections lost three seats by a margin of just 50 votes. We expected eight to 10 seats,but three of our candidates lost by less than 50 votes, said the partys state unit chief Kito Sora here,adding that the state unit was floated only on September 12 and fought the elections on October 13. If we had started two months ago,the party would have won at least 15 seats, he said.

Grandfathers revenge

MUMBAI: This battle was straight out of Mahabharata. In Nilanga Assembly seat,a sitting BJP MLA who took on his grandfather,former chief minister Shivajirao Patil Nilangekar of the Congress-NCP combine,realised that voters preferred age and experience to youth. The 32-year-old Sambhaji Patil Nilangekar was in the fray for the October 13 poll from this constituency in Marathwada region against his grandfather,whom he had defeated in 2004. The 77-year-old,an eight-term MLA,avenged his last loss by humbling Sambhaji by 7,504 votes.