The Congress party started in a very thin margin ahead of the Bharatiya Janata Party, as the votes were counted on Tuesday morning. Whenever the votes were being counted, patterns started coming up from both Haryana and Jammu and Kashmir, which gave the preliminary idea of the politics. In Jammu and Kashmir, the BJP and the National Conference Congress combined were neck and neck in a closely fought battle. As per the initial trends in NDTV, the BJP was leading in 18 seats in the Jammu and Kashmir state while the NC-Congress alliance was just behind leading in 13 constituencies.
However, in Haryana, it seemed the Congress was leading, winning 30 constituencies, while the BJP was lagging with success in only 20 constituencies, says NDTV. Nonetheless, P-Value data contradicted as the BJP onwards, therefore, stood in 23 seats, followed by the Congress in 20 seats out of a total of 25; this situation led us to understand that the political setup in Haryana was still an open and close contest.
It was equally competitive in Jammu and Kashmir. Soon after the data was released by P-Value, the National Conference-Congress alliance was leading in 9 seats and BJP in 12 seats. Both are desperately fighting – vying for a hold off the assembly in the union territory.
This has enabled the exit poll to forecast that Congress would win massively in Haryana with the possibility of a change of guard in the state. Besides, prognoses mentioned higher performance by the NC-Congress combine in the state, while some exit polls pointed to a possibility of an algum assembly in the region.
The counting of votes started as early as 8:00 a.m. in the morning, with the vote cast through Post and then after the vote cast via Electronic Voting Machines. These are still generally emerging trends, and when the picture is found, it could be even different.
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