The BJP on Thursday retained power in the Uttarakhand assembly election with a comfortable majority, held in a single phase on February 14.
The highlight of the Uttarakhand result is that the hill state voted out the ruling party but chief minister Pushkar Singh Dhami lost his seat by 7,000 votes from Khatima.
Opposition Congress campaign committee head and former chief minister congress veteran Harish Rawat too lost from Lalkuwa seat.
However, CM Pushkar Singh Dhami, who was contesting from Khatima for the fifth time, lost the elections by a margin of over 7000 votes.
He has lost by the margin of 7,000 votes. The Uttarakhand assembly election witnessed a three-pronged race with the ruling BJP, Congress, and Aam Aadmi Party fighting for the power in the 70-seat assembly.
The voting percent of Uttarakhand recorded 65.4 this year. The ruling party BJP and Congress both were favored by different exit polls.
According to ABP News-CVoter, the forecast exit poll for the congress party is around 32-38 seats in the 70-member assembly and for BJP 26-32 seats.
In the beginning, trends showed a neck-and-neck fight between the Bharatiya Janata Party and Congress in Uttarakhand but in the end, BJP set a milestone.
Prime Minister Narendra Modi also addressed BJP workers at the party’s headquarters in Delhi, saying that the saffron front in Uttarakhand had scripted history by winning today.
PM Narendra Modi also thanks all mothers, sisters, daughters who have voted BJP, and express gratitude for their trust and faith.
In the history of Uttarakhand, it is the first time that an incumbent govt has been voted back to power, and that too a majority.
