Elections 2016: Big Winners & Losers

Scripting history, the BJP on Thursday stormed to power in Assam for the first time dethroning Congress, which also lost Kerala, while Jayalalithaa and Mamata Banerjee retained power in Tamil Nadu and West Bengal respectively, with spectacular victories. The Congress could take solace only in Puducherry where it managed to get a simple majority along with DMK to wrest power from AINRC headed by N Rangaswami, a former Congressman. Sponsored: Avail attractive trading plans online at Sharekhan The results of the assembly elections saw the end of Congress rule in Assam where it had scored a hat-trick in the last elections under Tarun Gogoi. With Union Minister Sarbananda Sonowal as its Chief Ministerial face, the BJP and its allies AGP and Bodo People’s Front scored a landslide victory. In Puducherry, Congress-DMK alliance got a consolation win of sorts as it secured a simple majority with 17 seats in the 30-member assembly of the tiny union territory. Congress avenged its defeat in the 2011 elections at the hands of AINRC founder N Rangasamy, who broke away from the national party to form his outfit and rode it to power, as the ruling party fell by the wayside bagging just eight seats. - See more at: http://indianexpress.com/article/india/india-news-india/live-assembly-election-results-2016-mamata-banerjee-tarun-gogoi-jayalalithaa-chandy-karunanidhi-sonowal-2807344/#sthash.ZyaPz5HR.dpuf——————————————————————————————— Subscribe for more videos: http://goo.gl/RjJrX0 Like us on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/indianexpress Follow us on Twitter: https://twitter.com/indianexpress Download the Indian Express app at http://indianexpress.com/apps/ Watch more videos at http://www.indianexpress.com/videos