BJP workers celebrate after party candidate Krishan Middha wins from Jind in Haryana polls

Dibrugarh (Assam) [India], October 8 (ANI): As the counting of votes in the Haryana and Jammu and Kashmir Assembly elections is underway on Tuesday, Union Minister Sarbananda Sonowal exuded confidence in BJP winning both of these Assembly elections.

“BJP will win for sure. Till now, the news we have received is enthusiastic. This is the result of hard work that PM Modi has done in the last 10 years for all the sections of society,” Sonowal told reporters here.

According to the latest update on the Election Commission website, the BJP candidates are leading in 48 seats of the total 90 Assembly seats in Haryana. Congress is leading in 36 seats in the state.

In Jammu and Kashmir, according to the latest update, the candidates of the NC-Congress alliance are either leading or have won 48 seats of the total 90. The BJP candidates are leading or have won 29 seats.

Meanwhile, Haryana Former Chief Minister and Congress candidate Bhupinder Singh Hooda who retained his stronghold on the Garhi Sampla-Kiloi Assembly constituency on Tuesday continued to express optimism about his party’s victory in the results of the Haryana Assembly polls.

“As per the input I have with me, we are touching the majority. Congress is getting the majority. There are several seats that we have won…but the same is yet to be updated…” Hooda told reporters here as the Election Commission continued posting results from the counting of votes that began at 8 am today.

“I have news that counting is stopped at several places. We are getting the majority…This is a game, the ball is sometimes here, sometimes there but we will do the final goal,” Hooda said.

Hooda trounced his nearest rival Manju the candidtate put up by Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) with a margin of 70626 as per Election Commission.

Other candidates Pravin Guskhani from the Aam Aadmi Party (AAP), Sushila Devi from the Jannayak Janta Party (JJP), and Krishan from the Indian National Lok Dal (INLD).

At 2:45 pm the EC data said that Congress had won 9 seats and was leading in 27 others, while the BJP had won 4 seats and was leading in 44 seats. The Indian National Lok Dal was leading in two seats and the BSP in one seat. Independants were leading in three seats of the total 90 Assembly seats in the State.