Elections 2016: Three Reasons Behind Each State Victory

  Suffering a rout in the current round of assembly polls, the Congress could take heart only from the fact that it managed to wrest power in Puducherry from its breakaway group AINRC with a simple majority. The high-stakes elections saw the end of Congress rule in Assam where it had scored a hat-trick last time 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, cornering 86 seats in the 126-member Assembly. The BJP won 60 seats on its own, up from 5 last time. The AGP bagged 13 seats and was leading in one while the BPF secured 13 seats.