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The Madhya Pradesh assembly polls 2018 which went down to the wire has finally ended with a result. The Congress party has ended the 15 year- old reign of BJP and Chief Minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan. BJP finished with 109 seats in the 230 member assembly.
The congress which got 114 seats and two short of majority will now stake claim and form the next government. At a press conference, BSP supremo Mayawati announced that her two MLA’s in the state and her party will support the Congress to keep BJP out of power.
Results show that people in states like Chhattisgarh, Rajasthan and Madhya Pradesh were totally against the BJP and its anti people policies and as a result chose Congress due to lack of other major alternatives. “To keep BJP out of power we have agreed to support Congress in Madhya Pradesh and if need be in Rajasthan, even though we don’t agree with many of their policies.”
Interestingly, talks with BSP in Madhya Pradesh before polls with the Congress did not materialise. Now with Mayawati backing Congress post- poll the mahagathbandhan now looks a reality .
And if the Samajawadi party given former CM Akhilesh Yadav’s tweets after the results going the Congress way is anything to go by then BJP has formidable alliance to deal with in 2019 and particularly in Uttar Pradesh .
जब एक और एक मिलकर बनते हैं ग्यारह …
तब बड़े-बड़ों की सत्ता हो जाती है नौ दो ग्यारह…
— Akhilesh Yadav (@yadavakhilesh) December 11, 2018
The former UP CM Akhilesh Yadav also tweeted his party’s support to Congress in MP in case they are short of numbers.
समाजवादी पार्टी मध्य प्रदेश में सरकार बनाने के लिए कांग्रेस का समर्थन करती हैं।
— Akhilesh Yadav (@yadavakhilesh) December 12, 2018
