NEW DELHI: The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) has secured 49 assembly seats in Haryana and retain the power in state for the record consecutive third term, while the alliance of the National Conference (NC) and Congress has won the Jammu and Kashmir assembly polls.
The BJP won 49 seats out of the total 90 constituencies in Haryana, where the Congress has so far secured 30 and is leading in six.
In J&K, the NC and Congress have got 47 seats, the BJP 28 and the PDP three. AAP’s Mehraj Malik has handed the Arvind Kejriwal-led party its first-ever electoral win in Jammu and Kashmir.
Jammu and Kashmir voted in its first assembly elections since 2014, first as a Union Territory and first after the removal of Article 370, which gave the erstwhile state special status.