Gujarat / Himachal Poll Results: Live blog
Updated: Thu, 20 Dec 2012 14:15:00 GMT
By India Syndicate
2:21 pm: Columnist Tavleen Singh says Rahul's bed-time stories did not work in Gujarat. Congress has not offered anything new
2:14 pm: Tavleen Singh says that journalists should start taking Modi seriously. He is a leader who has delivered and old prejudices should be abandoned
2:11 pm: Results have started flowing in. Gujarat wins: BJP 99 - Cong 42
2: 08 pm: Karunanidhi and Chidambaram seem to think alike. Karunanidhi says the Gujarat results show that the Congress has improved. Congress has improved and BJP is weakening. Now that is really strange
2:05 pm: on the future role for Modi, Arun Jaitley says it is for the party and allies to decide
2:01 pm: Chidambaram should not have spoken out of turn. He should not reach conclusions so early, Arun Jaitley
1:59 pm: Disappointed with Himachal results, says Arun Jaitley
1: 49 pm: Congress has won in seats campaigned by Rahul Gandhi, says Manish Tiwari, Interesing statistic
1: 42 pm: BJP is likely to cross the magic figure of 120.
1:35 pm: The last minute surge is increasing for the BJP. BJP is leading/winning in 123 seats
1:28 pm: Jagriti Pandya, wife of slain former minister Haren Pandya of the BJP has lost from Ellisbridge. She was contesting on the GPP ticket
1:20 pm: In a sea of bad news, a silver lining for the Congress: Three key BJP ministers have lost the poll: Jaynarayan Vyas from Siddhpur, Dileep Sanghani from Amreli & Praful Patel from Himmatnagar
1:17 pm: Reports say that Arjun Modhwadia and Gohil have lost. Shankersinh Vagehla is leading
13:11 pm: Maverick lawyer and friend of BJP Ram Jethmalani says the win will make Modi a force in the national stage
1:05 pm: Himachal Pradesh CM Dhumal concedes defeat
12:59 pm: Shwetha Bhatt rues that she had only 17 days to connect with the electorate
12:57 pm: Tamil Nadu CM J Jayalalithaa calls up Modi wishing him on his success
12:52 pm: Modi to address the media at 5pm
12:47 pm: Gujarat Leader of Opposition in Gujarat Shaktisinh Gohil loses from Bhavnagar rural
12: 39 pm: Results have started flowing in Gujarat: BJP: 40, Cong: 22, Others:7 Himachal Pradesh: Congress: 15, BJP: 7, Others: 2
12:35 pm: Subramanian Swamy tweets - Soon India will put Rwanda to shame. That is why Modi is needed to be backed because he has a spine and cares a damn for liberals
12:27 pm: Late surge for BJP leads in 119, congress in 60
12:23 pm: Gujarat Parivartan Party president and former CM Keshubhai Patel wins by around 20,000 votes in Visavadar seat
12:18 pm: "This Gujarat election proves that it's not open skies for Narendra Modi" says Salman Khurshid. One really wonders about the Congress leaders. Were they expecting a sweep for BJP and are a bit relieved by the results? Chidambaram's reaction and Salman's reaction sound similar
12:15 pm: Analyst Nalapat says Nitish has no choice but to accept Modi as his leader. Without BJP help Nitish might not continue in power
12:10 pm: Himachal Chief minister Prem Kumar Dhumal wins by a margin of nearly 9500 votes from Hamirpur assembly seat
12:03 pm: BJP parries questions on Modi as PM - "Modi bhai has always been an important leader in the BJP... We are not a dynastic party which is led by a Yuvaraj. We function in a pure democratic fashion," BJP chief Spokesperson Ravi Shankar Prasad
11: 54 am: Congress opens account in Gujarat - Dr Tejashreeben Patel wins the Viramgam seat by a margin of 11,000 votes
11:52 am: Jayakrishnan says, does Modi’s hat trick in Gujarat catapult him to Race Course Road. Not with the present allies that his party the BJP has got. Other than the Shiv Sena, and the Akali Dal, others like the JD or the Samata may play coy at accepting Modi’s candidature. And without enough allies, in today’s fragmented franchise, it is well-nigh impossible to reach that magic figure of 272. But, does Modi have enough charisma and pan Indian following to make the election a ‘presidential’ contest – Modi vs Rahul Gandhi, where he can overcome the ‘not even allies’ factor and make it virtual straight contest? Has he done enough to convince enough people to see it that way? Don’t know. Watch this space.
11:45 am: BJP set to make an almost clean sweep in Ahmedabad with leads in 16 of the 17 seats
11:40 am: Delimitation would have increased BJP's tally by 10 seats, say pollsters
11:39 am: BJP has increased its vote share by 2% and Congress too has increased by 2%
11:38 am: BJP has got a vote share of 52% , the highest ever for the BJP
11:37 am: Latest Gujarat leads: BJP 117, Cong 61 - The seats for the BJP are the same as last time.
11:31 am: Congress party offices in Ahmedabad wears a deserted look. Not many leaders are in
11:23 am: Worst case scenario has occured for the Congress in Gujarat. Keshubhai Patel's GPP has eaten into Congress's votebank in Saurashtra and helped the BJP win, say analysts
11:21 am: BJP leading in 8 of the 12 Muslim dominated constituencies
11:19 am: Modi aide Amit Shah wins from Naranpura
11:17 am: Himachal goes to Congress. leads are Cong 39 BJP 24
11:15 am: Gujarat leads - BJP - 115 Cong - 64 ; there could be a last- minute surge in favour of the BJP
11:13 am: Minority votes also seemed to have gone in favour of BJP , analysts say.
11: 11 am: P Chidambaram says congress is a clear cut winner, as the BJP has been contained. Somewhat odd.
11:10 am: Madhu Kishwar says the Congress should not outsource fight against Modi to foreign NGO's who do not have any base in India
11:05 am: Congress heavyweights Arjun Modhvadia, Shaktisinh Gohil and BJP ministers Praful Patel, Jay Narayan Vyas, Dileep Sanghani and Fakhir Vaghela are trailing
11:03 am: Reports say Narendra Modi has won Maninagar by a margin of 56,000 votes
11:01 am: The slogans are changing in BJP offices in Gujarat. From Gujarat ka sher, it is now Bharat ka Sher.
source-www.news.in.msn.com
Updated: Thu, 20 Dec 2012 14:15:00 GMT
By India Syndicate
2:21 pm: Columnist Tavleen Singh says Rahul's bed-time stories did not work in Gujarat. Congress has not offered anything new
2:14 pm: Tavleen Singh says that journalists should start taking Modi seriously. He is a leader who has delivered and old prejudices should be abandoned
2:11 pm: Results have started flowing in. Gujarat wins: BJP 99 - Cong 42
2: 08 pm: Karunanidhi and Chidambaram seem to think alike. Karunanidhi says the Gujarat results show that the Congress has improved. Congress has improved and BJP is weakening. Now that is really strange
2:05 pm: on the future role for Modi, Arun Jaitley says it is for the party and allies to decide
2:01 pm: Chidambaram should not have spoken out of turn. He should not reach conclusions so early, Arun Jaitley
1:59 pm: Disappointed with Himachal results, says Arun Jaitley
1: 49 pm: Congress has won in seats campaigned by Rahul Gandhi, says Manish Tiwari, Interesing statistic
1: 42 pm: BJP is likely to cross the magic figure of 120.
1:35 pm: The last minute surge is increasing for the BJP. BJP is leading/winning in 123 seats
1:28 pm: Jagriti Pandya, wife of slain former minister Haren Pandya of the BJP has lost from Ellisbridge. She was contesting on the GPP ticket
1:20 pm: In a sea of bad news, a silver lining for the Congress: Three key BJP ministers have lost the poll: Jaynarayan Vyas from Siddhpur, Dileep Sanghani from Amreli & Praful Patel from Himmatnagar
1:17 pm: Reports say that Arjun Modhwadia and Gohil have lost. Shankersinh Vagehla is leading
13:11 pm: Maverick lawyer and friend of BJP Ram Jethmalani says the win will make Modi a force in the national stage
1:05 pm: Himachal Pradesh CM Dhumal concedes defeat
12:59 pm: Shwetha Bhatt rues that she had only 17 days to connect with the electorate
12:57 pm: Tamil Nadu CM J Jayalalithaa calls up Modi wishing him on his success
12:52 pm: Modi to address the media at 5pm
12:47 pm: Gujarat Leader of Opposition in Gujarat Shaktisinh Gohil loses from Bhavnagar rural
12: 39 pm: Results have started flowing in Gujarat: BJP: 40, Cong: 22, Others:7 Himachal Pradesh: Congress: 15, BJP: 7, Others: 2
12:35 pm: Subramanian Swamy tweets - Soon India will put Rwanda to shame. That is why Modi is needed to be backed because he has a spine and cares a damn for liberals
12:27 pm: Late surge for BJP leads in 119, congress in 60
12:23 pm: Gujarat Parivartan Party president and former CM Keshubhai Patel wins by around 20,000 votes in Visavadar seat
12:18 pm: "This Gujarat election proves that it's not open skies for Narendra Modi" says Salman Khurshid. One really wonders about the Congress leaders. Were they expecting a sweep for BJP and are a bit relieved by the results? Chidambaram's reaction and Salman's reaction sound similar
12:15 pm: Analyst Nalapat says Nitish has no choice but to accept Modi as his leader. Without BJP help Nitish might not continue in power
12:10 pm: Himachal Chief minister Prem Kumar Dhumal wins by a margin of nearly 9500 votes from Hamirpur assembly seat
12:03 pm: BJP parries questions on Modi as PM - "Modi bhai has always been an important leader in the BJP... We are not a dynastic party which is led by a Yuvaraj. We function in a pure democratic fashion," BJP chief Spokesperson Ravi Shankar Prasad
11: 54 am: Congress opens account in Gujarat - Dr Tejashreeben Patel wins the Viramgam seat by a margin of 11,000 votes
11:52 am: Jayakrishnan says, does Modi’s hat trick in Gujarat catapult him to Race Course Road. Not with the present allies that his party the BJP has got. Other than the Shiv Sena, and the Akali Dal, others like the JD or the Samata may play coy at accepting Modi’s candidature. And without enough allies, in today’s fragmented franchise, it is well-nigh impossible to reach that magic figure of 272. But, does Modi have enough charisma and pan Indian following to make the election a ‘presidential’ contest – Modi vs Rahul Gandhi, where he can overcome the ‘not even allies’ factor and make it virtual straight contest? Has he done enough to convince enough people to see it that way? Don’t know. Watch this space.
11:45 am: BJP set to make an almost clean sweep in Ahmedabad with leads in 16 of the 17 seats
11:40 am: Delimitation would have increased BJP's tally by 10 seats, say pollsters
11:39 am: BJP has increased its vote share by 2% and Congress too has increased by 2%
11:38 am: BJP has got a vote share of 52% , the highest ever for the BJP
11:37 am: Latest Gujarat leads: BJP 117, Cong 61 - The seats for the BJP are the same as last time.
11:31 am: Congress party offices in Ahmedabad wears a deserted look. Not many leaders are in
11:23 am: Worst case scenario has occured for the Congress in Gujarat. Keshubhai Patel's GPP has eaten into Congress's votebank in Saurashtra and helped the BJP win, say analysts
11:21 am: BJP leading in 8 of the 12 Muslim dominated constituencies
11:19 am: Modi aide Amit Shah wins from Naranpura
11:17 am: Himachal goes to Congress. leads are Cong 39 BJP 24
11:15 am: Gujarat leads - BJP - 115 Cong - 64 ; there could be a last- minute surge in favour of the BJP
11:13 am: Minority votes also seemed to have gone in favour of BJP , analysts say.
11: 11 am: P Chidambaram says congress is a clear cut winner, as the BJP has been contained. Somewhat odd.
11:10 am: Madhu Kishwar says the Congress should not outsource fight against Modi to foreign NGO's who do not have any base in India
11:05 am: Congress heavyweights Arjun Modhvadia, Shaktisinh Gohil and BJP ministers Praful Patel, Jay Narayan Vyas, Dileep Sanghani and Fakhir Vaghela are trailing
11:03 am: Reports say Narendra Modi has won Maninagar by a margin of 56,000 votes
11:01 am: The slogans are changing in BJP offices in Gujarat. From Gujarat ka sher, it is now Bharat ka Sher.
source-www.news.in.msn.com
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