After trailing in the initial rounds, Jharkhand Chief Minister Hemant Soren's JMM-led INDIA bloc made a stunning comeback and won 56 seats in the 81-member state assembly. The BJP, which had a massive lead when the counting started today, won 21 seats.
The counting of votes for the Jharkhand assembly elections began at 8 am and is expected to conclude in the next few hours.
The JMM of Hemant Soren fought in 41 assembly seats and gave the remaining ones to its allies - Congress (30 seats), Rashtriya Janata Dal (RJD) (6), and Communist Party of India (Marxist-Leninist) (4). The BJP contested 68 seats, while its allies, the All Jharkhand Students Union (AJSU) fought in 10, the Janata Dal (United) in two, and the Lok Janshakti Party (Ram Vilas) in one.
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Votes are also being counted for the Maharashtra assembly elections and for the bypolls to 48 Assembly seats in 14 states and in the Lok Sabha segments of Nanded in Maharashtra and Wayanad in Kerala. Congress' Priyanka Gandhi Vadra is making her poll debut from Wayanad, a seat that was earlier represented in the Lok Sabha by her brother, Rahul Gandhi.