Election Results 2023 | Assembly Election Result Live: The counting of votes polled in the assembly elections in Mizoram began at 8 am on Monday amid tight security. BJP swept Madhya Pradesh, Rajasthan and Chhattisgarh on Sunday inflicting a resounding defeat on the Congress to tighten its stranglehold in the Hindi heartland, in a big boost for Prime Minister Narendra Modi and setting the tone for the 2024 Lok Sabha elections. In some consolation for the Congress in the face of the saffron wave after it lost Rajasthan and Chhattisgarh, the party ousted the Bharat Rashtra Samithi (BRS) in Telangana to make it 3-1 for BJP in the latest round of Assembly elections billed as a semi-final before next year's poll showdown. Stay with TOI for live updates
Having wrested Rajasthan and, surprisingly, even Chhattisgarh – which looked “safe” for the Congress – and having retained power in Madhya Pradesh with a convincing margin, the 2023 elections to five states underlines the formidable force the BJP has become
The AIMIM, which is also referred to as MIM, retained the seats which it had been winning since 2009. A friendly party of BRS, it had contested nine seats, all in Hyderabad and had backed BRS in the rest of the state. The party's vote share came down 2.22 per cent from 2.71 per cent in 2018. It contested nine seats this time against eight in the previous election. 🗳️ Telangana Assembly Election Results 2023: Asaduddin Owaisi-Led AIMIM Retains Seven Seats in State but Vote Share Drops by 2.22%.
India's youngest state, Telangana, has seen just one party at the helm since its birth in 2014 - the Bharat Rashtra Samithi (formerly the Telangana Rashtra Samiti). But that will soon change as the Congress comprehensively defeated BRS.