Jharkhand Assembly Election Results 2019 Live News Updates: Raghubar Das Steps Down as Jharkhand CM

Raghubar Das stepped down as Jharkhand CM after the BJP failed to reach the majority mark. He submitted his resignation the state governor.

JMM leader Hemant Soren has won Dumka and Barhait assembly constituencies

PM Narendra Modi Congratulated JMM leader Hemant Soren on victory of Congress-JMM-RJD allaince in the assemnly elections.

Home Minister Amit Shah tweets on Jharkhand Assembly Election results. In a tweet, Shah said that the BJP respected the mandate given by people of Jharkhand.

Amit Shah's Tweet:

Congress-JMM-RJD alliance is leading in 46 seats, BJP is ahead in 25 seats.

Jharkhand's prospective chief minister Hemant Soren, while addressing the press for the first time after the election results emerged, expressed gratitude to the voters for granting a "decisive mandate" to the JMM-Congress-RJD alliance. "Today is a historic day. It is also a day for us to take the pledge to wholeheartedly serve the people for the next five years," Soren said. He also thanked RJD supremo Lalu Prasad Yadav, Congress chief Sonia Gandhi, her son Rahul Gandhi and daughter Priyanka Gandhi Vadra for jointly projecting him as the chief ministerial candidate.

Chief Minister Raghubar Das has "conceded defeat" as the alliance of Jharkhand Mukti Morcha, Congress and the Rashtriya Janata Dal (RJD) have extended their lead to 47 constituencies. "I tried to serve my best in last five years and can’t say anything before the results are out. I can call it as my defeat. We are not waiting for any miracle to happen," Das said.

Former Union Minister P Chidambaram jabbed the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) over their rout in Jharkhand. The Congress veteran pointed out that the saffron party has been "dented" in all the three state polls held after the Lok Sabha elections 2019. The Opposition parties must rally around the Congress to provide a nationwide alternative, he said.

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The Jharkhand Mukti Morcha is emerging as the single-largest party with leads in 29 constituencies. The BJP is trailing second with leads in 23 seats and victory in 1 constituency.

According to latest trends, JMM now emerges as single largest party in the state. The trends show JMM leading in 27 seats while the BJP is at 26. The counting of votes for Jharkhand Assembly Elections 2019 is currently underway.

The JMM-Congress-RJD combine has extended its lead to 45 constituencies, whereas, the BJP is trailing with leads in 25 assembly segments. The AJSU Party is ahead in 4 constituencies, whereas, the JVM(P) is ahead in 3 seats.

After racing ahead in the electoral race against BJP leader Louis Marandi in Dumka, JMM's Hemant Soren is once again trailing from the seat. As per the latest ECI trend, Marandi is leading from the constituency by 724 votes.

Sudesh Mahto of the All Jharkhand Students' Union (AJSU) Party has extended lead in Silli constituency by over 17,000 votes. As per the latest trend, he is ahead of JMM's Seema Devi by a total of 17,125 votes.

As per the numbers released by the Election Commission of India (ECI), the alliance of JMM-Congress-RJD has extended their lead in 40 constituencies. The BJP, emerging as a distant second, is ahead in 31 seats.

Saryu Rai, the BJP rebel who has emerged as the likely "giant killer" against Chief Minister Raghubar Das from Jamshedpur constituency, is hopeful of defeating his arch rival by a margin of around 30,000 votes. At present, he is leading by a margin of 2,700 votes.

BJP rebel and the probable "giant killer" - Saryu Rai - has pinned the blame on party's defeat in the Jharkhand assembly elections 2019 on the leadership of CM Raghubar Das. "Had he been replaced, the results would not had been this worse. People of Jharkhand would had felt that the BJP high command is sensitive to their apprehensions against the CM," he said. Notably, Rai is leading by over 3,000 votes against Das from the Jamshedpur East constituency.

Jabbing the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), Shiv Sena MP Sanjay Raut claimed that their former alliance partner's bid to polarise the voters in Jharkhand along communal lines has failed. "Home Minister raised CAA during his rallies. Attempts were also made to turn this into Hindu-Muslim (battle). But people of Jharkhand have rejected them," Raut said.

The All India Majlis-e-Ittehadul-Muslimeen (AIMIM) has drawn a blank in Jharkhand, as per the trends so far. The party has secured only 0.97 percent of the total votes, and has largely been rejected by the state's Muslim electorate. The community, along with most of the other sections of Jharkhand society, have largely rallied behind the coalition of Congress, JMM and RJD -- which is closing on the majority mark.

Hemant Soren of the JMM has resurged in the poll battle in Dumka constituency. After trailing in initial rounds, Soren has now taken a lead of over 2,500 votes against his nearest rival - BJP's Louis Marandi.

In a major jolt to the BJP, Jharkhand CM Raghubar Das is trailing from his own constituency of Jamshedpur East. Das, who had won the constituency by a margin of 70,000 votes in the last elections, is now trailing by 771 votes against his one-time Cabinet colleague and BJP rebel Saryu Rai.