Maharashtra-Haryana live updates: ML Khattar to take oath as Haryana CM on Sunday, Chautala to be deputy CM

In an editorial in its mouthpiece "Saamana", the Sena, which also saw a drop in its 2014 tally, said the mandate has rejected the notion that elections can be swept by engineering defections and splitting opposition parties. Analysing the poll results, which saw main opposition parties the NCP and Congress improving their tally, the editorial said the outcome shows opponents can't be finished in politics. (ANI)

Shalley Chaudhary of Congress became the first woman MLA of Naraingarh as voters made a Congress candidate win for the sixth time since 1967. In 2014, Nayab Saini of BJP had won this seat for the first time. When the seat fell vacant in 2019 after Saini became MP, he had started pushing for the nomination of his wife Suman as the BJP candidate from Naraingarh. But he was snubbed by the party high command and senior leadership in view of the party's ideology against "nepotism". Read more

BJP barely managed to retain Thanesar assembly constituency in Kurukshetra district where its candidate Subhash Sudha defeated his rival Ashok Arora by mere 842 votes. Sudha secured 55,759 votes while Arora finished second with 54,917 votes. Read more

While INLD candidate Satinder Singh got only 4,963 votes, JJP's Kiran Chaudhary bagger a meagre 7,739 votes. The security deposit of both candidates were forfeited. Read more

Dushyant led by example with marking a win over former Union minister Birender Singh’s wife and sitting MLA Prem Lata Singh from Uchana Kalan by a margin of 47,353 votes. His performance has also put a question mark over political legacy of famous peasant leader Chhotu Ram. Read more

Congress managed to make inroads into chief minister Manohar Lal Khattar’s stronghold after winning one out of the five assembly seats in Karnal district. On the other hand, Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) failed to retain two seats in the district. Read more

JJP leader Dushyant Chautala is also scheduled to hold MLAs meeting at his Delhi residence at 11 am.

Congress won all the three Ferozepur seats — Ferozepur-Jhirka, Punhana and Nuh. While Congress candidate Mamman Khan comfortably won from Ferozepur-Jhirka, defeating his nearest rival Naseem Ahmed of BJP by 37,004 votes, it was a close contest in Nuh and Punhana. Read more

Rashtriya Samaj Paksha (RSPS) candidate Ratnakar Gutte, who is currently housed in the district jail at Parbhani in connection with an alleged money laundering case, has won from Gangakhed. He defeated Shiv Sena’s Vishal Kadam by 1,641 votes. Read more

Prithviraj Chavan in Karad and Sushilkumar Shinde’s daughter won after facing tough fights. In comparison, Ashok Chavan in Bhokar had an easy win. Prithviraj defeated BJP’s Atul Bhosale with a margin of around 9,000 votes. Read more

Victories at Marathwada and Konkan were of little consolation to BJP as some other results were a rude shock. Harshvardhan Patil lost from Indapur with sitting NCP MLA Datta Bharne handing him his second successive defeat. The BJP lost in Maval, Shirur and Pandharpur too