Assembly Elections 2019

Dushyant Chautala said that the election symbols of “key”, “pair of slippers” and “cup and saucer”, on which the JJP candidates had contested elections earlier, were all reserved by some other outfits for the Delhi polls.

While the highest number of volunteers are from Uttar Pradesh and Haryana, many have come from Punjab, Bihar, Rajasthan, Maharashtra and Karnataka.

While Chadha replaced sitting AAP MLA Vijender Garg to bag the ticket, Tuseed is a former DUSU president and a name people know in the area.

Tajinder Bagga, who started his political career with the relatively unknown Bhagat Singh Kranti Sena (BSKS), has 6.5 lakh followers on Twitter, where he is often called out for posting virulent, fake or misleading tweets.

Before CM Arvind Kejriwal, over 40 people filed their nominations.

Former NSUI president of Delhi Romesh Sabharwal (55) got the Congress ticket, while BJP chose to field its youth wing president Sunil Yadav (43). Both have their task cut out: Fighting against Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal.

Deputy CM Manish Sisodia alleged the election office had deliberately given 30 minutes to one hour to every candidate, including those not having proper documentation or nominees, so that Kejriwal failed to file nomination.

Jitender Singh Tomar's election was recently set aside by the Delhi High Court over false declaration of educational qualifications in his nomination papers in 2015.

Both the Aam Aadmi Party and the Congress have fielded more women candidates this time around, with the latter doubling its numbers.

The party in a tweet said the election symbols of “key" and "pair of slippers", on which its candidates had fought polls earlier, were reserved by other outfits for the Delhi polls.

AAP, which is making a third bid to return to power in Delhi, claimed that 35 candidates with incomplete papers insisted that they would not allow Arvind Kejriwal to file unless their nominations were accepted.

The support by the JVM-P came after JMM legislature party leader and chief minister-designate Hemant Soren called on Babulal Marandi at his residence.

One comfort for the BJP is the narrow difference in vote share — while the JMM-Congress-RJD got 35.25 per cent of the vote, the BJP, fighting alone, got 33.5 per cent.

JMM’s Hemant Soren tipped to be new chief minister as Oppision alliance storms to power; CM Raghubar Das loses to rebel Saryu Roy

Jharkhand Election Results 2019: Thanking the people of Jharkhand for having given the BJP an opportunity to serve the state for many years, Modi applauded party workers for their efforts and said they would raising people-centric issues.

Jharkhand Election Results 2019: As per the latest trends available on the Election Commission website, Das was trailing BJP rebel candidate and former minister Saryu Roy by over 10,000 votes in Jamshedpur (East) constituency.

Jharkhand Election Results 2019: For the BJP, the loss in Jharkhand joins a string of poor performances by the saffron party in state elections in the past one year. Besides being outwitted in Maharashtra, BJP has lost in Rajasthan, Madhya Pradesh and Chhattisgarh.

"I thank the electorate to give us a clear mandate. Definitely, this day is a day of joy for all my party members but it is also a day when we can take a vow to meet the state's expectations," he said.

Being hailed as a 'giant killer', Saryu Roy, who was the MLA from Jamshedpur West, decided to contest against Raghubar Das as an Independent candidate after BJP did not give him a ticket in the elections.