Exit Poll 2024 Result: Jammu and Kashmir voted in its first Assembly elections since 2014.
New Delhi:
The closing votes had been forged in Haryana in the present day, with a turnout of 61 per cent until 5 pm. It will quickly be time to search out out what the exit polls have predicted for the state in addition to the Union Territory of Jammu and Kashmir.
It is a largely bipolar contest in Haryana and an essential one each for the BJP, which is trying to type a authorities within the state for the third straight time and the Congress, which is hoping to make a comeback.
The BJP received solely 5 of the state’s 10 Lok Sabha seats in Haryana after sweeping all of them in 2019 and these Assembly elections are a possibility for the social gathering to show that it stays standard with voters after failing – for the primary time in 10 years – to attain a majority by itself within the basic elections.
In the Lok Sabha elections, the opposite 5 constituencies in Haryana had been received by the Congress, which believes it’s in a powerful place to type the federal government within the state this time.
The 2019 Assembly elections had seen the BJP successful 40 of the state’s 90 seats, the Congress 31 and the Jannayak Janta Party (JJP) 10. The BJP had fashioned the federal government with the help of the JJP and Dushyant Chautala grew to become the deputy chief minister. The alliance ended after the BJP changed Manohar Lal Khattar with Nayab Singh Saini because the chief minister in March.
Jammu and Kashmir additionally has 90 seats and it voted in its first Assembly elections since 2014, first as a Union Territory and first after the removing of Article 370, which gave the erstwhile state particular standing.
Statehood has been a significant challenge within the elections and its restoration has been promised by the BJP – together with by PM Narendra Modi and Home Minister Amit Shah – in addition to the Congress and the National Conference, which contested the polls in an alliance.
Another main participant is Mehbooba Mufti’s Peoples Democratic Party and different events embrace Abdul Ghani Lone’s People’s Conference, Ghulam Nabi Azad’s Democratic Progressive Azad Party and Altaf Bukhari’s Apni Party. An fascinating growth in these elections was the entry of the banned Jamaat-e-Islami, which backed some candidates, and its strategic alliance with Engineer Rashid’s Awami Ittehad Party.
The counting of votes might be held on October 8.