Election results 2022: Modi hails BJP cadre for winning 4 out of 5 states

Election Results 2022 highlights: Uttarakhand, Uttar Pradesh, Goa, Manipur have voted for BJP. Meanwhile, AAP won a landslide mandate in Punjab.

BS Web Team New Delhi

Narendra Modi. Photo: PTI

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Election results 2022 LIVE updates: Vote shares of BJP increased in UP, Goa and Manipur, says Modi

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Change is unavoidable if we need to succeed: Shashi Tharoor as Congress' poor run continues

As Congress' poor run continued in the Assembly elections across five states, Shashi Tharoor said, "One thing is clear - Change is unavoidable if we need to succeed." Taking to Twitter, he wrote: "All of us who believe in Congress are hurting from the results of the recent assembly elections. It is time to reaffirm the idea of India that the Congress has stood for and the positive agenda it offers the nation — and to reform our organisational leadership in a manner that will reignite those ideas and inspire the people. One thing is clear - Change is unavoidable if we need to succeed."

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All exit polls have been proved wrong in Goa...BJP has scripted new history in Uttarakhand, says PM Modi

All exit polls have been proved wrong in Goa...BJP has scripted new history in Uttarakhand- for the first time a party has come for a second consecutive term in the state: PM Modi on Assembly results in 5 states- UP, Uttarakhand, Manipur, Goa and Punjab

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Goa election result 2022 LIVE updates: Third straight BJP govt in Goa, says PM Modi

Goa election result 2022 LIVE updates: With today's win, BJP will form government for the third straight time in Goa, says PM Modi

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Election result 2022 LIVE: Women, youth backed BJP, says PM Modi

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UP election result 2022 LIVE: This is the first time that a CM came into power again in UP, says PM Modi

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Election results 2021 LIVE: Today is festive day for us, says PM Modi

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Uttarakhand election result: Pushkar Dhami played like Dhoni but gave away own wicket cheaply, says Rajnath

Defence Minister Rajnath Singh has compared Pushkar Singh Dhoni to cricketer Mahendra Singh Dhoni. Dhami, who he said is a good finisher.

Dhami was plucked out of obscurity by the Bharatiya Janata Party leadership last July to be made the Uttarakhand chief minister, with just months to go before the party faced the assembly elections.

He also happened to be is party's second CM replacement in 2021 earlier Trivendra Singh Rawat was made to make way for Tirath Singh Rawat.

Dhami seems to have justified the BJP's choice. The ruling party appears set to form the government in Uttarakhand again, the first time in the state's 21-year history that a party will come to power for a second term in a row.

But in his own Khatima constituency, Dhami lost by a margin of about 6,500 votes.

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