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" Out of the 243-strong Donald Trump in the closely- # Assembly, 78 constituencies fought presidential election, # went to polls in the final phase. according to American media % & While all exit polls gave projections. & clear edge to the Grand The 77-year-old former Alliance, the India Today- every JD(U) pot of confusion and distrust US Vice President will become % Axis Exit polls projected candidates and boiling throughout the poll the 46th president of the United 138-161 seats to the Grand went to the poll campaign. States, CNN reported, after a Alliance, while Chanakya pro- with the sole objective of oust- In the end, both the BJP victory in Pennsylvania, the # # jected 180 seats to it. ing Nitish Kumar. Throughout and the JD(U) paid the price as state where he was born put ! " % & ( The exit polls forecast serve the poll campaign, the BJP supporters of both the parties him over the 270 electoral #$ % & )*)+# a grim message to the NDA could not dispel the impression tried to sabotage each other on votes needed to win. , - (. that there are few takers for that Chirag was not fighting a several seats. JD(U) MP from With Pennsylvania’s 20 - Q Hindutva-driven campaign if proxy battle on its behalf to cut Bhagalpur Ajay Kumar Mandal electoral votes, Biden now has that you have chosen me to Major media outlets start- 0 the Opposition could flag to size Nitish Kumar. In the was heard asking his workers a total of 273 electoral votes. lead our great country. The ed calling Biden the winner issues that concerned the com- end, the LJP seemed to walk not to vote for the BJP inviting Before becoming the work ahead of us will be hard, after it became clear that he has mon man. away with 7-8 per cent votes, severe tongue-lashing from Democratic presidential nom- but I promise you this: I will be taken a major lead the battle- ! If the exit polls projection which would translate into loss Deputy Chief Minister Sushil inee, Biden served as vice pres- a President for all Americans — ground State of Pennsylvania, - 1 comes true on November 10, of dozen of seats for the Kumar Modi. He was not the ident under former President whether you voted for me or which has 20 electoral college then it will be a rude shock to JD(U). lone leader to play spoilsport Barack Obama. He is also not. I will keep the faith that votes, making him cross the the NDA strategists who till Political circles in Bihar for the alliance. Several BJP Delaware’s longest-serving sen- you have placed in me,” Biden benchmark of the 270 electoral 2 one month ago were confident were abuzz with speculation leaders also tried to sabotage ator. Senator Kamala Harris, 56, said in a tweet soon thereafter. college votes. Counting of bal- # of winning over 200 seats in the that the BJP wanted Nitish to the JD(U) candidates. The con- who is of Indian origin, has “This election is about so lots is still ongoing in & 244-member Assembly. After get far less seats than it so that fusion was all the more visible become the first ever woman much more than” Joe Biden “or Pennsylvania, Arizona, Nevada all, only 18 months ago in the he himself will not lay claim to on the ground among workers vice president-elect of the me. It’s about the soul of and Georgia. Biden has the lead # Lok Sabha polls, the NDA the post of Chief Minister on from both the parties. United States. She would also America and our willingness to in all the four states, which M 1 swept the State winning 39 out moral ground. Prime Minister With Covid-19 causing be the country’s first Indian- fight for it. We have a lot of according to major media out- )*45M of 40 seats and logging in 54 Narendra Modi, Home extreme economic stress origin, first Black and first work ahead of us. Let’s get start- lets is unlikely to be reversed. 2 per cent votes as against 29 per Minister Amit Shah and BJP among the lower strata of the African American Vice ed,” tweeted Vice President- “Joe Biden will become cent by the Grand Alliance. president JP Nadda did repeat- society and nearly 25 lakh President of the country. elect Harris. Trump was play- the 46th president of the United Apart from 15 years of edly claim that Nitish will migrant workers returning to Biden and Harris would be ing golf in Virginia when major States”, CNN projects, after a ! anti-incumbency, Nitish retain his chair even if his Bihar under heart-rending sworn in as the President and media outlets called the race. victory in the state where he Kumar also faced sabotage party were to get less seats than conditions, the burden of anti- Vice President of the country He is now the first incumbent was born put him over the 270 from Chirag Paswan, who put the BJP, but their failure to pub- incumbency grew that much on January 20. president to lose reelection bid electoral votes needed to 2 up candidates against each and lically chastise Chirag kept the heavier for the NDA. “America, I’m honoured after George HW Bush in 1992. win. O ! '(() 4 / "#$% & the state, taking the recovery rate above the national average. Q As per government data, 52 the growth rate of the virus in '( & Jharkhand was 0.30 per cent . ?),%" against the national average of " ! 6 ,./0" 0.48 per cent. The doubling rate he Covid-19 toll inched of Covid-19 infection in the 7 he exit polls for the bypolls Ttowards 900 in Jharkhand state was 232.58 days against Tin Madhya Pradesh, on Saturday, while the recovery the national doubling rate of 2 O & Gujarat and Uttar Pradesh have rate drew close to 95 per cent 145.86 days. indicated that the BJP will after two more Covid patients Ranchi and East ! consolidate its presence in the breathed their last on the day & +,-.' / Singhbhum account for more N Q three States. According to the and over 400 patients defeated 0 , than half of the Covid-19 casu- India Today-Axis My India the viral infection, figures alties in Jharkhand so far. As O P exit poll, the Shivraj Singh compiled by the health depart- Ranchi and the other in reported 86 fresh cases, the per government data, as many Q Chouhan Government in ment stated. Hazaribag. The Covid toll highest among all districts, as 337 people of died of the Madhya Pradesh will survive As per a bulletin released reached 179 in Ranchi and 27 while Dumka reported one viral infection in East Q with the BJP likely to bag 16- by the National Health Mission in Hazaribag, highlighted the case, the lowest. Singhbhum and 179 in Ranchi. 2 O 18 Assembly seats. The (NHM) on Saturday night, as NHM bulletin, putting the Health workers in NHM figures highlight that ! - Congress is estimated to bag many as 340 people were found total count of Covid casualties Jharkhand have collected swab more than 50 per cent of the 10-12 of the total 28 seats that infected across the state in 24 in Jharkhand at 897. samples of 36.25 lakh people Covid-19 victims were in the were up for by-election in hours against as many as 411 The government on and tested 36.07 lakh of them age bracket of 51 years to 70 Madhya Pradesh. If these esti- recoveries. The Covid-19 Saturday tested swab samples of so far. years. At least 452 Covid vic- mates hold true, the BJP’s vote recovery rate in the state rose 27,341 people and around 1.2 Of the 36 lakh-odd people tims were in the age bracket of share has risen by 5 per cent to to 94.75 per cent against the per cent of them were found to tested, at least 1,04,239 were 51 to 70 years, while 226 were !""# M 46 per cent while the Congress’ national average of 92.40 per be Covid positive. None of the found infected by the lethal older than 70 years. At least 177 %& , M vote share rose by two per cent cent after Saturday’s findings. 24 districts in Jharkhand virus. However, as many as victims were in the age brack- '( to 43 per cent. It predicts 0-1 Of the two deaths report- reported a triple digit spike in 98,776 Covid patients have et of 31 to 50 years and 40 were # )((! seats in MP going to the BSP. ed on the day, one occurred in the Covid caseload. Ranchi recovered from the infection in younger than 30 years. *+ + ) ,- % M " M 7 # 23 ! &) % ! them training of nurses, mak- ! * & ing them skilled.