Election Results 2013
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BJP's Super Sunday: 4-0
he BJP has ended up with absolute or two-thirds majority in Rajasthan and looks set to do so in Madhya Pradesh, but is likely to stop shy of a clear majority in Delhi, where the Aam Aadmi Party has ensured, in a stunning debut, that the ruling Congress stands decimated.
Apart from Delhi's likely hung house, the BJP managed to scrape through in Chhattisgarh, where it had been engaged in an intensely close tussle with the Congress. Chief Minister Raman Singh will get a third straight term.
In sharp contrast, his neighbour in MP and party colleague Shivraj Singh Chouhan is headed to posting a massive win and has graciously offered to extend this to next year's general elections, when, he promises, his state will send the maximum BJP MPs to Parliament to ensure the Congress is evicted from the Centre.
In Rajasthan, the BJP's Vasundhara Raje has already got some practice doing that; she has thrown out the Congress' Ashok Gehlot government, and has won a whopping 162 of the 199 Rajasthan seats where polling was held.
For the Congress, which has lost Rajasthan and Delhi and has failed to make a dent in MP, it is a rude wake-up call just months before national elections due in May. Young leaders like Jyotiraditya Scindia admitted that the "writing is on the wall" and that the Congress needs a new strategy for 2014.
These assembly elections are largely being seen as the semi-finals ahead of 2014 and also a test of the popularity of Narendra Modi, who campaigned extensively as the BJP's prime ministerial candidate.
Central minister Shashi Tharoor said, "I am not prepared to extrapolate from today's results for Lok Sabha elections." But big winner Ms Raje said, "Modi has been a big factor too. It's a semi-final to what's going to happen in 2014."
In Delhi, the Aam Aadmi Party is the big story. It is leading in 27 seats, six short of the BJP's leads at 33. Delhi has 70 assembly seats. Arvind Kejriwal has also defeated three-time chief minister Sheila Dikshit in her constituency of New Delhi.
Apart from Delhi's likely hung house, the BJP managed to scrape through in Chhattisgarh, where it had been engaged in an intensely close tussle with the Congress. Chief Minister Raman Singh will get a third straight term.
In sharp contrast, his neighbour in MP and party colleague Shivraj Singh Chouhan is headed to posting a massive win and has graciously offered to extend this to next year's general elections, when, he promises, his state will send the maximum BJP MPs to Parliament to ensure the Congress is evicted from the Centre.
In Rajasthan, the BJP's Vasundhara Raje has already got some practice doing that; she has thrown out the Congress' Ashok Gehlot government, and has won a whopping 162 of the 199 Rajasthan seats where polling was held.
For the Congress, which has lost Rajasthan and Delhi and has failed to make a dent in MP, it is a rude wake-up call just months before national elections due in May. Young leaders like Jyotiraditya Scindia admitted that the "writing is on the wall" and that the Congress needs a new strategy for 2014.
These assembly elections are largely being seen as the semi-finals ahead of 2014 and also a test of the popularity of Narendra Modi, who campaigned extensively as the BJP's prime ministerial candidate.
Central minister Shashi Tharoor said, "I am not prepared to extrapolate from today's results for Lok Sabha elections." But big winner Ms Raje said, "Modi has been a big factor too. It's a semi-final to what's going to happen in 2014."
In Delhi, the Aam Aadmi Party is the big story. It is leading in 27 seats, six short of the BJP's leads at 33. Delhi has 70 assembly seats. Arvind Kejriwal has also defeated three-time chief minister Sheila Dikshit in her constituency of New Delhi.
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