5 States Assembly Election 2023 Live: I humbly accept the mandate, says Rahul Gandhi
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Counting of votes for the Madhya Pradesh Assembly elections underway, at a centre in Jabalpur
CHENNAI: The votes for the legislative assemblies of four states -- Chhattisgarh, Rajasthan, Madhya Pradesh and Telangana -- are being counted amid tight security arrangements, in the final stretch of the battle billed as the semifinal before the mega final in 2024.
However, the counting of votes in Mizoram, which also went to polls along with four other states last month, has been pushed back to December 4, Monday, the Election Commission (EC) informed earlier.
The counting of votes at designated centres began at 8 am on Sunday.
Check the detailed result of 5 State Assembly polls here
The polling in five states, straddling the north, east and southern parts of the country, is tipped to set the course of the political headwinds going into the Lok Sabha elections next year.
Live Updates
- 3 Dec 2023 2:54 PM IST
Madhya Pradesh: Union Minister and BJP candidate Narendra Singh Tomar says, "For the grand victory in Madhya Pradesh, I would like to thank the people of the state. This is the win of PM Modi's popularity..."
- 3 Dec 2023 2:54 PM IST
#WATCH | Telangana Congress chief Revanth Reddy along with party leaders DK Shivakumar and others celebrates the party's lead in the state elections, in Hyderabad pic.twitter.com/jW0eRTSF4s
— ANI (@ANI) December 3, 2023 - 3 Dec 2023 2:39 PM IST
BJP MP Sadhvi Pragya Singh Thakur says, "PM Modi is in the hearts of the entire country. He is there in the hearts of the people of Madhya Pradesh, Chhattisgarh, and Rajasthan...This is a country of Hindus and will remain so, and the BJP stands with the religion..."
- 3 Dec 2023 2:39 PM IST
BJP leader Sidharth Nath Singh says, "In Chhattisgarh, no one believed that the BJP would form the government there. But things changed when we used the PM Modi 'Guarantee' word. Everyone voted one-sidedly in Madhya Pradesh, and today the BJP is forming the government. In Madhya Pradesh, everyone fought the elections together. That's why we are forming our government there too. We can see the same in Rajasthan. I will also say for Telangana that the BJP is going in double digits..."
- 3 Dec 2023 2:35 PM IST
UP Congress spokesperson Anshu Awasthi says, "We have been saying again and again that a deliberation on EVMs needs to happen. All political parties have raised this question before the Election Commission. To ensure that the country's trust in democracy continues, EVMs need to be removed and it needs to be deliberated upon. It is not possible that people's desire on the ground is something else and EVMs say something entirely different. So, it needs to be deliberated upon. The country wants this, we want this."
- 3 Dec 2023 2:35 PM IST
BJP workers burst firecrackers and celebrate at the party office in Uttar Pradesh as the party leads in Madhya Pradesh, Chhattisgarh and Rajasthan elections.
- 3 Dec 2023 2:26 PM IST
#WATCH | On election results, Union Minister Nitin Gadkari says, "The people of the country have shown their mood through these elections. We got good success in Rajasthan, Chhattisgarh and Madhya Pradesh. People have supported our schemes. I thank PM Modi. party President JP… pic.twitter.com/zm79KXSH1b
— ANI (@ANI) December 3, 2023 - 3 Dec 2023 2:26 PM IST
Telangana: Congress candidate from Jubilee Hills, Mohammad Azharuddin trailing by a margin of 1648 votes after the 10th round of counting, garnering a total of 25,923 votes so far.
- 3 Dec 2023 2:26 PM IST
#WATCH | Bhopal: Madhya Pradesh CM Shivraj Singh Chouhan addresses the party workers as the party leads towards a landslide victory in the state
— ANI (@ANI) December 3, 2023
"We will fulfil all our guarantees..." he says pic.twitter.com/Cen9CZiE9O - 3 Dec 2023 2:26 PM IST
Telangana: Congress president and candidate from Kamareddy, Revanth Reddy leading by a margin of 2207 votes after the 10th round of counting, garnering a total of 32,950 votes so far.
Incumbent CM and BRS candidate against him from here, K. Chandrashekar Rao trailing.
