Madhya Pradesh Election: Shivraj Singh Chouhan resigns, says ‘I take full responsibility of defeat’

In the assembly elections, the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), which ruled the state for 15 years, got 109 seats.

In the state, the Congress emerged as the single largest party in the state by winning 114 seats, two short of a simple majority. / Twitter

Bhopal: As Congress emerged as the single-largest party with 114 seats after the vote count ended on Wednesday morning, the three-time Madhya Pradesh Chief Minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan announced his resignation from the Chief Minister post and took responsibility of the loss in the state. He further announced that the BJP will not stake claim to form a government in the state. In the state, the Congress emerged as the single largest party in the state by winning 114 seats, two short of a simple majority. BSP extended their support to the Congress to form the government in Madhya Pradesh saying "We don't agree with the ideology of the Congress. But we will support it to keep the BJP out of power."

#MadhyaPradeshElections2018 : #ShivrajSinghChouhan on his way to Governor office to resign from the post of chief minister of Madhya Pradesh. He says “we do not have the numbers so we are not staking claim to form a government.”

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In the assembly elections, the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), which ruled the state for 15 years, got 109 seats. However, it edged ahead of the Congress in the vote share by a slender margin, bagging 41 per cent of the total votes polled, while the Congress got 40.9 per cent. "We have got more votes, but we will respect the mandate. We haven't got the required seats to form the government. We will not stake claim to form the government and I am submitting my resignation soon to the governor," Chouhan told media. Chouhan was the state's longest serving chief minister since 2005.