With 36-hours to go for counting votes of Rajasthan, Madhya Pradesh and Chhattisgarh assembly elections – all three sitting Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) chief ministers are confident of returning to power.
Madhya Pradesh Chief Minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan, who has been in power for three consecutive terms said that his party will form the government.
Speaking to news agency ANI, he said that the Congress was “distressed.”
While a few exit polls have predicted a hung assembly in the naxalism-hit Chhattisgarh, incumbent Chief Minister Raman Singh thinks otherwise. In Chhattisgarh too, the BJP, in power for the last 15 years, is hoping to beat anti-incumbency.
Rajasthan Chief Minister Vasundhara Raje who held a core committee meeting of state party leaders in Jaipur, said that she was confident that her party will form the government with a majority.
"I am very confident. We will definitely form the govt with majority,” said Raje.
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