Elections Results 2023 Reactions HIGHLIGHTS: Today's Poll Results Show People Have Faith In Democracy, Says PM Modi
Assembly Elections Results 2023 Reactions HIGHLIGHTS: Keep following ABP Live to get all the pre and post-counting reactions from the stakeholders and others alike.
Today whenever I could watch TV, I saw results of Northeast all over...This is not a result of less distance between hearts but a reflection of a new ideology. Today's poll results show people have faith in democracy," says PM Modi while addressing party workers at BJP HQ in Delhi after the assembly election results in Tripura, Meghalaya, Nagaland.
The results (of Assembly polls) that we are seeing today is due to the vision of PM Modi which includes empowering the poor, women: BJP chief JP Nadda
"I thank Tripura for placing trust in BJP again. It is a victory of pro-development politics that BJP has delivered under PM Modi's leadership. Together we will move ahead & build a prosperous Tripura," Union Home Minister Amit Shah said.
"I thank people of Nagaland from bottom of my heart for choosing peace and progress by re-electing the PM Modi-led NDA back in power. The duo of PM Modi and CM Neiphiu Rio will continue to advance peace and development in the state and fulfil people’s aspirations," he added.
Tripura |The 2-year old party has become the second biggest party in Tripura due to blessing of people. We might have moved a little backward but moving from 0-13 is big for us...: Tipra Motha Chairman, Pradyot Kishore Manikya Debbarma
Be it Tripura or Nagaland, in fact in Meghalaya also our seats have increased...BJP has earned a glorious victory & I thank people of all 3 states for that...the possibility of two-third govt cannot be neglected: Defence Minister Rajnath Singh.
"I thank PM Modi, home minister Amit Shah, BJP president JP Nadda and senior leaders for their faith and confidence. Central govt's beneficiary schemes, state govt's works and party workers' hard work played an important role in the victory," says Tripura CM Manik Saha.
"The manner in which BJP is winning the northeast and garnering people's support in the region shows that the fruits of the work done by our government under the visionary leadership of Prime Minister Narendra Modi was reaching the far flung corners of the country. If we're winning elections, it means we're winning people's confidence. Only the BJP will impact the poll outcomes in the enitre Northeast," Union Minister Kiren Rijiju said.
“Prime Minister Narendra Modi has worked for the country and my party will support NDA. I express gratitude to the people of the three states,” says Union Minister Ramdas Athawale
Meghalaya Chief Minister and National Peoples' Party chief Conrad Sangma said that they will wait for the final results as his party wins one seat and gains the lead on 25 seats out of the total 60 assembly seats in the state.
"We'd like to thank the people of the state for having voted for us. We are short on a few numbers, so we'll wait for the final results to come out. We will see what next steps are to be taken based on the final results," he said while speaking to ANI.
Tripura Chief Minister Manik Saha said that his party will not have an alliance with TIPRA Motha becuause they have an agenda.
"I want to congratulate, they (TIPRA Motha) worked hard. They have their own agenda that is why we cannot have alliance with them. It will be our opposition party. We will work together on tribal causes with them," Saha said while speaking to ABP News.
As the BJP maintains the lead in all the three northeastern states of Nagaland, Tripura, and Meghalaya, Union Minister Kiren Rijiju said, "The simple reason behind the manner in which BJP is winning in northeast and garnerning people's support, is that the work done by PM Modi is reaching the public. That's the formula. If we're winning elections, it means we're winning people's confidence."
While the TIPRA Motha said that it will support BJP, the saffron party said that it is ready to accept all demands of the party except for Greater Tipraland.
While the counting of votes for the Tripura assembly is currently underway, sweets were being distributed at Chief Minister and BJP leader Manik Saha's residence in Agartala as the party leads on 32 out of 60 seats.
Congress workers celebrated party's lead on West Bengal's Sagardighi assembly seat. The counting of votes is underway for bypolls to this assembly constituency.
Speaking to ABP News, CPM leader Hannan Mollah blamed newly-formed TIPRA Motha for its loss in Tripura. "Tribal vote went to TIPRA motha, so our vote share declined," he said.
Speaking to ABP News, CPM leader Hannan Mollah blamed newly-formed TIPRA Motha for its loss in Tripura. "Tribal vote went to TIPRA motha, so our vote share declined," he said.
Union Minister Kiren Rijiju said that BJP will form a government in Tripura on its own and won't require anyone's support. Rijiju's comments came after TIPRA Motha said that it will support BJP in forming the government in Tripura.
As the counting is underway for the polls to assemblies of Nagaland, Tripura, and Meghalaya, BJP leader Manoj Tiwari said that his party was "clearly coming in two states, but not sure about Meghalaya."
"We came from 2 to 8 seats in Meghalaya...we rose from 2 seats to 300 plus in the country," he said while speaking to ABP News.
Tiwari said that as per the trends, BJP will be coming back in Tripura. "These trends show that BJP did not come suddenly in Tripura. We made way through peoples' heart."
On being asked about if the party will support NPP in Meghalaya, Tiwari said, "BJP keeps its allies together."
Nagaland Deputy Chief Minister exuded confidence as BJP-NDPP alliance takes lead.
"As of now, our alliance NDPP & BJP are way ahead. We are going to get a thumping majority to form the govt under the leadership of our CM Neiphiu Rio. This time we're expecting an increase in the seats compared to last poll results," said Yanthungo Patton, Deputy Chief Minister of Nagaland.
The BJP has won 2 seats and is leading on 7 seats while NDPP is leading on 19 seats.
Workers of Congress and DMK celebrate as EVKS Elangovan lead by 10,000 votes in Erode East bypolls.
Pradyot Debbarma-led TIPRA Motha said that it will support BJP if the party gives "optical solidarity" for the cause of tribals.
As Congress gained lead on the Erode East Assembly seat in Tamil Nadu, party President Mallikarjun Kharge said that he was confident on winning the seat. EVKS Elangovan was leading with over 5,000 votes on this seat.
"Everybody expected this and our party people were very confident to win. We are going to win that seat with a huge margin. People are pro DMK-Congress alliance," Kharge said.
BJP workers in Agartala have come out on raods in celebration mode as the party gains lead on 33 seats in Tripura. "Will come with full majority," said one of the workers while speaking to ABP News.
Workers of Pradyut Debbarma-led TIPRA Motha chanted slogans and were in celebration mode as the party leads on 11 seats in early trends. "Tipra Motha to be largest political party, we will see after sometime that TIPRA Motha will get more than 30 seats," said one of the party workers.
As the counting starts for Meghalaya Assembly, the state BJP president, Ernest Mawrie said that BJP will form the govt and that no one else can form the government without the saffron party.
"We performed puja at the party office today and took blessings of Mata Tripureshwari. BJP will return to power in Tripura. We will get a majority," said Tripura BJP president Rajib Bhattacharjee ahead of the counting of votes in Tripura.
Ahead of the counting of votes for polls to the 60-member Tripura Assembly, Union minister and candidate from Dhanpur seat, Pratima Bhoumik said that she was a hundred per cent confident of her win and that the double engine government under the leadership of Prime Minister Narendra Modi will come back in Tripura
Ahead of the counting of votes for the polls to three northeastern states of Tripura, Nagaland, and Meghalaya, Assam Chief Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma on Tuesday said that there will be no hung assembly as predicted by some exit polls and that NDA will form government in all the three states.
"There will be no hung assembly. The NDA will form governments in all the three states," he said at a press conference in Guwaahti.
Background
Assembly Elections Results 2023 Reactions HIGHLIGHTS: Hello and welcome to ABP Live on Counting Day of three Northeast states — Meghalaya, Nagaland, and Tripura. Besides these three legislative assemblies, the bypolls results of 5 assembly segments from 4 states are also being declared on March 2.
As the democratic process takes its full course, various political parties have been staking claims of victory. The picture will be crystal clear by evening, which entails that political pundits, leaders and observers will have a comment to give on the outcome of results be it for Nagaland, Tripura, Meghalaya or by-elections seats from West Bengal, Tamil Nadu, Jharkhand and Maharashtra. Keep following this space to get all the pre and post-counting reactions from the stakeholders and others alike.
Exit polls conducted by various news channels on Monday predicted a hung assembly in the state of Meghalaya, a victory for NDPP in Nagaland backed by the BJP, and a mixed prediction for Tripura, where a new political party, the Tipra Motha, could potentially emerge as a king-maker in the upcoming elections.
In Tripura, India Today-MyAxis's exit polls indicated that the BJP would win between 36-45 seats in the 60-member assembly by garnering 45% of the popular vote, giving them a spectacular win, mostly in the plains where Bengalis reside. The Left-Congress combine is expected to receive a meagre 6-11 seats with only 32% of the popular vote, a significant drop from their 43% vote share in 2018. The newly formed party, Tipra Motha, founded by former royal Pradyot Kishore Mankiya Debbarma, is shown as gathering 9-16 seats from the tribal areas with a concentrated 20% of the vote share.
However, the Left-Congress combine doubted the exit polls, with Congress leader Sudip Roy Burman stating, "The BJP will end up in single digits... people have voted against the lawlessness prevailing in the state. It was a revenge vote against the party in power." The ETG-Times Now poll indicated that the BJP would remain the largest party, but with a substantial drop from their previous tally of 36 to just 24 seats, while the Left-Congress would get 21 seats, with Tipra Motha snatching 14 seats in the tribal areas.
Meanwhile, the ZeeNews-Matrize exit poll predicted that the BJP and its ally would win 29-36 seats in Tripura, while the Left-Congress would get between 13-21 seats, and Tipra Motha Party would get between 11-16.
In Meghalaya, both the Times Now ETG Exit and India Today-My Axis polls predicted a hung assembly. Chief Minister Conrad Sangma remained confident of victory, saying, "We are happy that exit poll predictions are in line with our belief that we will get more seats than what we did last time... we are keeping all our options and will do what is in the best interest of the state."
The Times Now ETG Exit poll predicted that Sangma's NPP (National People's Party) would get 18-26 seats, Trinamool Congress led by former chief minister Mukul Sangma would take 8-14 seats, UDP another 8-14 seats while BJP would improve its tally from two to anything between 3-6 seats.
India Today-My Axis predicted that NPP would bag 18-24 seats, short of a majority, forcing it to look towards other parties to shore up figures. It also gave UDP 8-12 seats, Congress 6-12 seats, TMC 5-9 seats and the BJP 4-8 seats. The Zee News-Matrize exit poll predicted that the National People's Party would retain Meghalaya with 21 to 26 seats. Also, it predicted 8-13 seats for Trinamool and 6-11 for BJP.
In Nagaland, the NDPP is slated to get 28-34 seats with a vote share of 33 per cent, according to India Today-My Axis. The poll also gives BJP a surprising 16 per cent vote share and 10-14 seats, possibly coming from eastern Nagaland where it focused its campaigning. Congress is predicted to get 10 per cent votes and between 1-2 seats and the rump of the Naga People's Front which remained after some 21 MLAs joined NDPP is forecast to get 13 per cent vote share and between 3-8 seats.
Times Now similarly predicts 27-33 seats for NDPP, 12-16 seats for BJP, and 4-8 seats for NPF. While Zee News-Matrize is giving 35-43 to NDPP-BJP, it has also predicted 2-5 seats for the NPF and 1-3 seats for the Congress.
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