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His rain- cant seats in the Jat belt of the ty of the Shiv Sena embracing #/ # " (#$ # $0! #!! 4-56 70% of the seats,” said Fadnavis. that,” he said. However, the biggest riddle bow coalition of non-Jat castes State at the cost of the the NCP and Congress to form Noting that he BJP received Fadnavis’s statement came for the party would be to get following the violent Jat BJP. Government, Raut said, “No, He noted that NCP chief As per the results, the BJP 28% of the total votes in the minutes after Sena chief the requisite numbers to get a we fought the polls in alliance Sharad Pawar “using his expe- and the Shiv Sena won 105 2014 Assembly elections, he Uddhav Thackarey said there majority in the 90-member with the BJP. We will go ahead rience” and fanning parts of the seats and 56 seats respectively. said, “This time we have got was a 50-50 deal with the BJP House. In such a scenario, the with the tie-up. There will be state also gave some success to The Opposition NCP and 26.5% of the votes despite con- and it should be clear as to who fledgling Jananayak Janata no change in the pre-decided the Opposition party. the Congress got 54 and 44 testing 164 seats.” should be the Chief Minister. Party (JJP) holds the key. 50-50 formula.” “But we are also winning seats respectively. The BJP contested on 164 In 2014, the BJP had won The JJP — the surprise He said Shiv Sena president seats in good number,” the In his first Press conference of the 288 seats in the state 122 seats in the state and the package this election and the Uddhav Thackeray and Chief Rajya Sabha member added. after the BJP emerged as the while its ally, the Shiv Sena, Sena 63 — effectively making true inheritors of the legacy of Minister Devendra Fadnavis On BJP candidate single largest party in fought on 124. Fadnavis said the Narendra Modi-Amit Jat leader Chaudhary Devi Lal will hold talks on implement- Udayanraje Bhosale trailing Maharashtra, Chief Minister that 15 Independent and rebel Shah-led BJP the “big brother” — would take a call on extend- ing the formula. against NCP’s Srinivas Patil in Devendra Fadnavis on candidates are in touch with in the alliance. ing support on Friday. On the Congress and NCP the Satara Lok Sabha seat Thursday said his party’s strike him. Indirectly hinting at the The traditional alliance Government sources indi- collectively fairing better than bypoll, Raut said the former rate has been the best ever in Sena’s claim for the Chief between the two has since cated that Governor Satyadev the 2014 polls in the State, Raut “was to face defeat”. the history of the state even Minister’s post, Fadnavis said been stormy, with the Sena Narayan Arya would invite the said the Opposition also needs Bhosale quit the NCP though it won fewer seats com- the Opposition had performed repeatedly attacking the BJP on single largest party BJP to form to be strong in a democracy. recently to join the BJP. pared to the Assembly polls in better and managed to win different fronts. the Government and the frac- ut of the three sporting $ ($ Ostars fielded by the BJP in the polls, only one managed to secure a victory for the party. The BJP had fielded Commonwealth wrestling champion Babita Phogat from Dadri, Olympic wrestling pertaining to the lawyers’ Council and the Odisha High medallist Yogeshwar Dutt cease-work agitation at the Court Bar Association to from Baroda and former High Court and the district appear personally before the national hockey team captain courts. court during next hearing post- 1 Sandeep Singh from Pehowa. Besides, the Supreme ed on November 8. All three were first-time can- Court also withdrew the power The apex court directed the massive fire broke out in didates. of the HC Bar Association to duo to apprise it the reasons Athe Syndicate Hall of the Sandeep recorded his take any disciplinary action behind the lawyers’ Utkal University here on maiden election victory from against Mishra, who is repre- strike. Thursday, destroying many Pehowa seat in Kurukshetra senting the Orissa High Court Besides, the Chairperson of files and documents. district and defeated Congress in the apex court. the Bar Council of India has The fire broke out after a candidate Mandeep Singh A Bench of Justices SK also been summoned by the Syndicate meeting of the uni- Chathha by a margin of 5,314 Kaul and KM Joseph directed Supreme Court to be present in versity was held in the votes. the Odisha Government to the court during the next hear- hall. In Dadri, Babita could submit a report as to how ing. The exact cause of the fire secure only third place as an many days judicial works were As the Odisha was yet to be ascertained. Independent Sombir won the affected at the HC and district Government apprised the Several fire tenders were seat. Sombir polled 43,849 courts due to the lawyers’ agi- Supreme Court that it is fully rushed to the spot and were votes followed by 29,319 of 37,530 votes and Krishan tation in 2018 and 2019. capable to provide security to trying to control the blaze till JJP’s Satpal Sangwan and Hooda secured 42,379 votes. he Supreme Court on Based on the suggestions of lawyers and litigants in High last reports received. 24,502 of Babita Phogat. The most “famous” TThursday stayed the deci- Attorney General KK Court and the district courts, Though properties worth Olympic medallist celebrity candidate of the BJP sion of the Orissa High Court Venugopal, who was present the apex court observed that lakhs of rupees were reported Yogeshwar failed to impress — Sonali Phogat — who was Bar Association suspending during the hearing, the there is no need for deployment to have been destroyed, the voters as he was defeated contesting from Adampur senior lawyer Shiba Shankar Supreme Court summoned the of paramilitary forces in the fortunately there was no by Congress’ Krishan Hooda against Congress’ Kuldeep Mishra while hearing the case Chairpersons of the Odisha Bar High Court at this stage.