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Winning 78 seats would give the Congress a two-thirds majority in the Punjab assembly.
Current result trends: Congress leading in 74 Assembly seats, AAP in 24 and SAD-BJP in 18.
“This is the revival of the Congress,” Navjot Singh Sidhu, who looks set to win the Amarinder East seat, tells media persons.
Trends in Punjab’s election result now stand at Congress leading in 73 seats, AAP in 24, and SAD-BJP in 18.
The meeting has been called by Congress’s Amarinder Singh, who looks all set to become the next chief minister of Punjab.
While the results remain to become official, Congress MLAs who have won in the Punjab Assembly election, plan to hold a meeting tomorrow at 2 pm in Chandigarh.
The victorious MLAs will then meet Governor Vijayendrapal Singh.
The other question is, who will be the main opposition in the Punjab Assembly? Currently, the Aam Aadmi Party seems ahead, leading in 24 seats while the ruling SAD-BJP leads in 19 seats.
The big questions now are can the Congress win a two-thirds majority? The party, leading in 72 seats according to the latest result trends, would need to win 78 seats to do so.
The Congress is now leading in 70 seats. However, more interestingly, the SAD-BJP’s early leads have cut back to just 19 seats. Will the alliance lose more seats as the Assembly election results become clearer? We will know soon.
Captain Amarinder Singh will address the media at noon today, four hours after counting began in Punjab. After the interaction, Singh will leave for Patiala, an aide announced.
Celebrations, meanwhile, have begun at the Congress’s office in Punjab as the party celebrates coming back to power in the state.
CM Parkash Singh Badal, AAP’s Bhagwant Mann, Congress’s Navjot Singh Sidhu lead in their respective seats.
Congress now leading in five seats in Punjab. Arvind Kerjriwal’s Aam Aadmi Party leads in two seats, while the SAD-BJP combine leads in two seats.
AAP and Congress both lead in three seats each in Punjab. SAD-BJP alliance leading in one seat.