Four Independents hold key for Cong in MP

December 12, 2018 09:51

The Congress will have to enlist the support of at least one of the four independents or of the lone Samajwadi Party candidate elected in Madhya Pradesh to form the next government in the state.

The results for 230 of the 230 seats have been declared. The Congress has won 114 and the ruling BJP has won 109 seats. The Mayawati-led Bahujan Samaj Party has won two seats, the Samajwadi Party has won one seat and Independent candidates have won four.

Chief Minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan has won from his traditional Budhni seat by a margin of 58,999 votes, defeating former Union minister and senior Congress leader Arun Yadav. -- PTI

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