RANCHI: Congress-JVM(P) combine today won 10 assembly seats and was leading in 20 in Jharkhand while BJP- JD(U) alliance got 7 and was ahead in 17 as the state headed for a fractured verdict with JMM saying it would support any combine that makes its leader Shibu Soren the chief minister. ( Watch Video )
While JMM won 9 seats and was ahead in as many, regional parties JVM(P) and AJSU captured 4 and 3 respectively in the 81-member House. Congress on its own won 6 and BJP 12.
RJD got 2 while another regional party JBSP secured one seat. Others including an independent got 6.
"Our party's stand is whoever will support Guruji (Shibu Soren) for chief ministership, will get our support," JMM's Central Committee Secretary, Supriyo Bhattacharya told PTI.
RJD chief Lalu Prasad said in Patna, "The results are a victory for secular forces. We will explore the formation of a secular government in Jharkhand."
Asked whether he was in touch with Congress leaders including Sonia Gandhi, Prasad said, "Let the final picture of the results emerge first, then only top leaders should discuss."
He suggested that the leaders of secular alliances - Congress-JVM(P), RJD-LJP and JMM - should sit together and explore installation of a secular government.
"I am content that the communal forces represented by BJP have been wiped out with the people rejecting both BJP and JD(U)," he said.
Former chief minister and JVM(P) president Babulal Marandi gave a call for support to the alliance between his party and the Congress and expressed confidence in forming the next government in the state.
"All well-wishers should support our alliance," Marandi said, adding that his party had fought with the Congress and would stand by it.
Among the first results announced was the victory of Geeta Koda, wife of former chief minster Madhu Koda, from Jagannathpur. She defeated her nearest rival Sonaram Birua of BJP by over 20,000 votes.
Geeta was the candidate of the Jai Bharat Samanta Party (JBSP) floated by her husband.
While Congress-JVM(P) alliance won from Daltonganj, Sisai, Bermo and Icchagarh, Speaker Alamgir Alam of Congress lost from Pakur to Akuil Akhtar of JMM by 5,714 votes.
The BJP-JDU won from Kharsawan, Gumla, Simdega, Manika, Ranchi, Chatarpur and Tamar and was leading in 17 seats. A prominent winner of the alliance was C P Singh from Ranchi.
JMM won seven seats - Chaibasa, Sikaripara, Sareikela, Torpa, Jama, Pakur and Dumri. Sita Soren, widow of Durga Soren, the late eldest son of party chief Shibu Soren won the Jama seat.
Senior JMM leader and former deputy chief minister Sudhir Mahto, however, lost the Icchagarh seat to the JVM(P).
Former minister Enos Ekka of the Jharkhand Party Ekka, now in judicial custody in a disproportionate assets case, retained his Kolebira seat.
While JMM won 9 seats and was ahead in as many, regional parties JVM(P) and AJSU captured 4 and 3 respectively in the 81-member House. Congress on its own won 6 and BJP 12.
RJD got 2 while another regional party JBSP secured one seat. Others including an independent got 6.
"Our party's stand is whoever will support Guruji (Shibu Soren) for chief ministership, will get our support," JMM's Central Committee Secretary, Supriyo Bhattacharya told PTI.
RJD chief Lalu Prasad said in Patna, "The results are a victory for secular forces. We will explore the formation of a secular government in Jharkhand."
Asked whether he was in touch with Congress leaders including Sonia Gandhi, Prasad said, "Let the final picture of the results emerge first, then only top leaders should discuss."
He suggested that the leaders of secular alliances - Congress-JVM(P), RJD-LJP and JMM - should sit together and explore installation of a secular government.
"I am content that the communal forces represented by BJP have been wiped out with the people rejecting both BJP and JD(U)," he said.
Former chief minister and JVM(P) president Babulal Marandi gave a call for support to the alliance between his party and the Congress and expressed confidence in forming the next government in the state.
"All well-wishers should support our alliance," Marandi said, adding that his party had fought with the Congress and would stand by it.
Among the first results announced was the victory of Geeta Koda, wife of former chief minster Madhu Koda, from Jagannathpur. She defeated her nearest rival Sonaram Birua of BJP by over 20,000 votes.
Geeta was the candidate of the Jai Bharat Samanta Party (JBSP) floated by her husband.
While Congress-JVM(P) alliance won from Daltonganj, Sisai, Bermo and Icchagarh, Speaker Alamgir Alam of Congress lost from Pakur to Akuil Akhtar of JMM by 5,714 votes.
The BJP-JDU won from Kharsawan, Gumla, Simdega, Manika, Ranchi, Chatarpur and Tamar and was leading in 17 seats. A prominent winner of the alliance was C P Singh from Ranchi.
JMM won seven seats - Chaibasa, Sikaripara, Sareikela, Torpa, Jama, Pakur and Dumri. Sita Soren, widow of Durga Soren, the late eldest son of party chief Shibu Soren won the Jama seat.
Senior JMM leader and former deputy chief minister Sudhir Mahto, however, lost the Icchagarh seat to the JVM(P).
Former minister Enos Ekka of the Jharkhand Party Ekka, now in judicial custody in a disproportionate assets case, retained his Kolebira seat.
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