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" Out of the 243-strong Donald Trump in a divisive, # Assembly, 78 constituencies bitter and closely-fought pres- # went to polls in the final phase. idential election, to become the % & While all exit polls gave oldest man ever elected to the & clear edge to the Grand White House. Alliance, the India Today- every JD(U) boiling throughout the poll The 77-year-old former % Axis Exit polls projected candidates and campaign. US Vice President will become 138-161 seats to the Grand went to the poll In the end, both the BJP the 46th president of the United Alliance, while Chanakya pro- with the sole objective of oust- and the JD(U) paid the price as States, after a victory in ! ! ! # # jected 180 seats to it. ing Nitish Kumar. Throughout supporters of both the parties Pennsylvania, the state where " # $% # ! % & ( The exit polls forecast serve the poll campaign, the BJP tried to sabotage each other on he was born put him over the &' ! # ( " ! )*)+# a grim message to the NDA could not dispel the impression several seats. JD(U) MP from 270 electoral votes needed to , - (. that there are few takers for that Chirag was not fighting a Bhagalpur Ajay Kumar Mandal win. With Pennsylvania’s 20 - Q Hindutva-driven campaign if proxy battle on its behalf to cut was heard asking his workers electoral votes, Biden now has work ahead of us will be hard, bid after George HW Bush in 0 the Opposition could flag to size Nitish Kumar. In the not to vote for the BJP inviting a total of 273 electoral votes. but I promise you this: I will be 1992. issues that concerned the com- end, the LJP seemed to walk severe tongue-lashing from Before becoming the a President for all Americans - Trump, 74, was in no mon man. away with 7-8 per cent votes, Deputy Chief Minister Sushil Democratic presidential nom- whether you voted for me or mood to concede the race and ! If the exit polls projection which would translate into loss Kumar Modi. He was not the inee, Biden served as vice pres- not. I will keep the faith that declared himself as the winner - 1 comes true on November 10, of dozen of seats for the JD(U). lone leader to play spoilsport ident under former President you have placed in me,” Biden of the November 3 presidential then it will be a rude shock to Political circles in Bihar for the alliance. Several BJP Barack Obama. said in a tweet after the US election. “I WON THIS ELEC- the NDA strategists who till were abuzz with speculation leaders also tried to sabotage Senator Kamala Harris, 56, media projected him as the TION, BY A LOT!” tweeted 2 one month ago were confident that the BJP wanted Nitish to the JD(U) candidates. The con- who is of Indian origin, has winnner of the November 3 Trump. Major media outlets # of winning over 200 seats in the get far less seats than it so that fusion was all the more visible become the first ever woman election. started calling Biden the win- & 244-member Assembly. After he himself will not lay claim to on the ground among workers Vice President-elect of the “This election is about so ner after it became clear that he all, only 18 months ago in the the post of Chief Minister on from both the parties. United States. She would also much more than” Joe Biden “or has taken a major lead the bat- # Lok Sabha polls, the NDA moral ground. Prime Minister With Covid-19 causing be the country’s first Indian- me. It’s about the soul of tleground State of M 1 swept the State winning 39 out Narendra Modi, Home extreme economic stress origin, first Black and first America and our willingness to Pennsylvania, which has 20 )*45M of 40 seats and logging in 54 Minister Amit Shah and BJP among the lower strata of the African American Vice fight for it. We have a lot of electoral college votes. 3 per cent votes as against 29 per president JP Nadda did repeat- society and nearly 25 lakh President of the country. work ahead of us. Let's get Counting of ballots is still cent by the Grand Alliance. edly claim that Nitish will migrant workers returning to Biden and Harris would be started,” tweeted Vice ongoing in Pennsylvania, Apart from 15 years of retain his chair even if his Bihar under heart-rending sworn in as the President and President-elect Harris. Arizona, Nevada and Georgia. ! anti-incumbency, Nitish party were to get less seats than conditions, the burden of anti- Vice President of the country Trump, a Republican, was Biden has the lead in all the Kumar also faced sabotage the BJP, but their failure to pub- incumbency grew that much on January 20. playing golf in Virginia when four states, which according to from Chirag Paswan, who put lically chastise Chirag kept the heavier for the NDA. “America, I’m honoured major media outlets called the major media outlets is unlike- 3 up candidates against each and pot of confusion and distrust Turn to Page 4 that you have chosen me to race. He is now the first incum- ly to be reversed. lead our great country. The bent president to lose reelection Turn to Page 4 O ! %& 5 / Q &&' 63 . " ! 6 ,./0" )* 7 he exit polls for the bypolls " 1)++* founded to carry forward their Tin Madhya Pradesh, “constitutional” fight for the 3 O & Gujarat and Uttar Pradesh have n a major political develop- restoration of Article 370 and indicated that the BJP will Iment, the newly formed 35-A in Jammu & Kashmir. ! consolidate its presence in the People’s Alliance for Gupkar The announcement was N Q three States. According to the Declaration on Saturday decid- made by the spokesman of the India Today-Axis My India ed to contest the upcoming People’s Alliance for Gupkar O P exit poll, the Shivraj Singh District Development Council Declaration (PAGD), Sajad Q Chouhan Government in (DDC) polls unitedly in Jammu Gani Lone, soon after the Madhya Pradesh will survive & Kashmir. maiden meeting of all the con- Q with the BJP likely to bag 16- The eight phase DDC polls stituents ended here in Jammu 3 O 18 Assembly seats. The are scheduled to take place on Saturday. During the day ! - Congress is estimated to bag between November 28 and several delegations from 10-12 of the total 28 seats that December 19 amid tight secu- Jammu met these leaders at the were up for by-election in rity arrangements along with residence of Farooq Abdullah Madhya Pradesh. If these esti- bypolls on the vacant seats of and shared their assessment of mates hold true, the BJP’s vote urban local bodies in J&K. the prevailing political situation share has risen by 5 per cent to It is for the first time the in the region. !"# M 46 per cent while the Congress’ Kashmir-based regional par- Jammu & Kashmir %& , M vote share rose by two per cent ties, considered arch rivals, Pradesh Congress Committee '( to 43 per cent. It predicts 0-1 have decided to contest any (JKPCC) also announced that # )((! seats in MP going to the BSP. polls under the same banner. it will contest the DDC polls. *+ + ) Turn to Page 4 #% ) " ! 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