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13 chandigarh | gurugram | jalandhar | bathinda | jammu | srinagar | vol.3 no.295 | 18 pages | ~5.00 | regd.no.chd/0006/2018-2020 established in 1881 TRUMP IMPEACHMENT PROBE ~92,000-CR SHOCKER FOR TELCOS UP WITHDRAWS ORDER TO SACK HEARING DISRUPTED WORLD AS SC BACKS GOVT ON AGR BUSINESS 25K HOME GUARDS BACK PAGE /thetribunechd /thetribunechd www.tribuneindia.com friday, october 25,2019 HARYANA Uddhav insists on VERDICT 2019 Khattargovt may be back inHry HUNG HOUSEBJP 6 short of majority| Key Congress meeting in Delhi today 50:50 in Maha Govt Sushil Manav ShivKumar Tribune News Service PEOPLE HAVE REPOSED Tribune News Service Chandigarh, October 24 TRUST IN BJP: MODI Mumbai, October 24 With the BJP winning 40 The BJP-Shiv Sena seats in the 90-member ❝People of Maharashtra alliance is all set to retain Haryana Assembly, Chief and Haryana have reposed power in Maharashtra with Minister Manohar Lal Khat- their trust in Chief Ministers the saffron grouping win- CM thanks voters, tar seems set to head a minor- of the two states and they ning 161 seats in the 288- vows speedier works ity government in the state will work even harder in the member Assembly. Chandigarh: Haryana CM with the help of Indepen- next five years to serve Contesting together, the BJP Manohar Lal Khattar on Thurs- dents. Though the BJP failed them. The party’s and the Shiv Sena won 105 day thanked the people of the to cross the halfway mark, and 56 seats, respectively, with state for voting for the BJP and for performance in Haryana is Sena chief Uddhav Thackeray PM Narendra Modi and party smaller ally Rashtriya Samaj speaks in Mumbai on Thursday. the increase in BJP’s vote share in president Amit Shah today unprecedented. Its Paksha bagging a lone seat. the Assembly polls. In a state- left nobody in doubt that vote share has The two parties, which con- BJP+ CONG+ OTH ment, Khattar said as soon as the BJP once again formed the gov- Khattar would head the gov- gone up to tested the 2014 elections sepa- ernment in Haryana, public proj- ernment in the state. 36% from 33% rately, had bagged 122 and 63 161 98 29 ects would be speeded up “The people of Maharash- in 2014. seats then. through an “honest and account- tra and Haryana have JUBILATION: BJP supporters celebrate victory in Gurugram on Thursday. TRIBUNE PHOTO: S CHANDAN Narendra Modi, PM The Congress-NCP alliance, able government.” reposed their trust in the which had been written off CMs of the two states and BJP CONG JJP INLD 2014 RESULTS before the elections, sprang a they will work even harder surprise and improved its tally. 2019 RESULTS BJP INLD CONG OTHERS in the next five years to 40 31 10 1 MORAL DEFEAT FOR BJP NCP leader Sharad Pawar, 47 19 15 9 TOTAL SEATS 288 serve them,” the PM said Verdict is a moral who led the campaign from the MAGIC MARK while addressing workers at defeat❝ for the BJP... In front, ensured that his party won the BJP headquarters in 54 seats while the Congress OTHERS Haryana, there has been 145 Delhi. The BJP Parliamen- SEATS bagged 44 seats as against 41 2014 RESULTS tary Board authorised Shah a drop in BJP’s vote and 42 seats in 2014. Smaller out- to take all decisions regard- 8 90 percentage in fits that allied with the two secu- BJP SHIV SENA CONG Former CM Hooda ing government formation 2019 RESULTS BJP VOTE SHARE UP just four lar parties also bagged six seats. 122 63 42 TOTAL SEATS 90 emerges stronger in Haryana and Maharash- BJP VOTE SHARE OF months after Even before the results NCP Chandigarh: Former CM Bhupin- tra. Sources said the CMs of MAGIC MARK 36.5% IS 3% MORE the Lok Sabha were in, Sena chief Uddhav 41 der Singh Hooda has emerged the two states would not THAN 2014 POLLS victory. Thackeray reminded Chief SEATS stronger. After his party lost power be changed. 46 CONG SHARE IS 8% Anand Sharma, Minister Devendra Fadnavis in Haryana in 2014, the 72-year- 288 Earlier in the day, with ear- HIGHER AT 28.1% CONGRESS about the agreement to share old satrap had nothing going in his ly trends indicating a close 2019 VERDICT PAGES 4,5,6,7 power equally. “We agreed on OTHERS 20 favour. He was booked for alleged contest between the BJP the 50:50 formula when (BJP land scam and the BJP made it a and Congress, Shah can- Shah. They are expected to state alive with top leaders la’s Jannayak Janata Party won the Garhi Sampla-Kiloi president) Amit Shah came time, as requested by them. poll issue. Also, the Congress veter- celled his prior engage- lend support to the party. urging Opposition unity to (JJP), an offshoot of the seat in Rohtak district with a to my house. Now is the time But we cannot give them an remained at loggerheads with earlier state unit chief Ashok ments, including an ITBP While the BJP won 40 seats, keep the saffron brigade at INLD, won 10 seats while the huge margin of over 58,312 to implement the agree- concessions every time,” he Tanwar. Hooda was made CLP event, and summoned Khat- the Congress sprung a sur- bay. A key Congress meet INLD won the lone Ellen- votes. However, Khattar’s ment,” Thackeray told medi- made it clear. Leader only weeks before the tar to Delhi. Sources said prise bagging 31 seats. under party president Sonia abad seat. Eight seats went ministers Captain Abhi- apersons here. He refused to Among the big winners polls. “Had the high command giv- Rania Independent MLA Despite PM’s public signal Gandhi will be held in Delhi to Independents. manyu, OP Dhankar, Ram say whether the two parties today was Shiv Sena leader en him charge a few months earli- Ranjit Singh and Sirsa MLA on the formation of a BJP tomorrow to debate the scale CM Khattar retained his Bilas Sharma, Kavita Jain, had reached an agreement Aaditya Thackeray who won er, Cong performance would have Gopal Kanda were already government in Haryana, the of negotiations with poten- Karnal seat with a comfort- Krishan Lal Panwar, Manish on the post of CM. “We have from Worli in Mumbai by been even better,” said a leader. on their way to Delhi, accom- Congress kept hopes of a tial allies in Haryana. Signif- able margin. Former CM Grover and Krishan Kumar given a lot of room to the BJP. nearly 70,000 votes. panied by a BJP MP, to meet post-poll coalition in the icantly, Dushyant Chauta- Bhupinder Singh Hooda continued on page 13 We contested fewer seats this continued on page 13 Punjab Cong wrests BJP retains HP’s Just 2 Khattar ministers make it D’sala, Pachhad Pradeep Sharma PratibhaChauhan Tribune News Service three seats, SAD one Tribune News Service Chandigarh, October 24 JupinderjitSingh Shimla, October 24 WON LOST LOST All Haryana ministers, Tribune News service The ruling BJP retained both SANDEEP SINGH BABITA PHOGAT YOGESHWAR DUTT except Anil Vij (Ambala Chandigarh, October 24 seats — Dharamsala and Pach- PEHOWA DADRI BARODA Cantt) and Banwari Lal The ruling Congress won three had — in Himachal Pradesh. (Bawal), faced defeat. Party WON WON LOST of the four bypolls in Punjab What was most humiliating for bigwigs, including BJP chief with the SAD bagging the the Congress was that its Sports stars bite dust, Subhash Barala, Prem Lata, ANIL VIJ BANWARI LAL CAPT ABHIMANYU Dakha seat where Sandeep Dharamsala candidate Vijay wife of Rajya Sabha member AMBALA CANTT BAWAL NARNAUD Sandhu, political secretary to Inder Karan was placed at the Sandeep lone ‘Soorma’ Birender Singh, lost the elec- WHY BJP TOP BRASS TOOK A BEATING the CM, Capt Amarinder third position, having polled toral battle. Speaker Kanwar ■ Singh, was in the fray. The 8,212 votes. Independent Sushil Manav deep Chatha of the Congress by Pal Gujjar (Jagadhri), how- Khattar, ministers Vij & Banwari due to ‘inaccessibility, arrogance’ Lal, Speaker sole winners ■ SAD lost the Jalalabad seat, Rakesh Kumar polled 16,740 Tribune News Service 5,314 votes from Pehowa. ever, made it. Jat voters in big numbers ■ that is on the home turf of votes, while BJP candidate Chandigarh, October 24 However, wrestlers Babita The defeat of almost the BJP’s failure to consolidate preferring to vote for party president Sukhbir Congress’ Raminder Awla after Vishal Nehria won the seat by Two of the three internation- Phogat and Yogeshwar Dutt entire Cabinet, including non-Jat, urban voters, unlike non-BJP candidates the 2014 Assembly elections ■ Badal, to the Congress. winning SAD bastion Jalalabad. a margin of 6,758 votes. al-level sportspersons fielded had to taste defeat from Ram Bilas Sharma (Mahen- Dominance of local issues over ■ Manpreet Ayali of the SAD The results are a shot in the by the ruling BJP had to bite Dadri and Baroda Assembly dragarh), Capt Abhimanyu Anti-incumbency against them national issues such as 370 defeated Congress’ Sandhu third with 8,437 votes. The arm for Chief Minister Jai the dust with former Indian seats, respectively. (Narnaud), OP Dhankar in Dakha, polling 66,297 votes Jalalabad seat, vacated by Ram Thakur, for whom hockey captain Sandeep Phogat finished a distant (Badli), Kavita Jain (Sonepat), away voters from the saffron leaders — Capt Abhimanyu, against 51,625 by his oppo- SAD president Sukhbir retaining both seats was a Singh emerging as the only third with Sombir, an Inde- Krishan Lal Panwar (Israna), party which chose to built its Dhankar and Barala — were nent.