TIL Desk/National/New Delhi/ BSP chief Mayawati has announced that her party will be lending support to the Congress in the just-concluded five-state elections. What this means is that the Congress which has 114 seats in Madhya Pradesh, now has the numbers to form government in the state.
The BSP has two seats, which gives the Congress 116 seats, which is exactly the halfway mark need to form government. Even if the BJP (109) gets the support of the SP(1) and Independents (4) it will be still short of a simple majority.
In Rajasthan, the Congress has emerged as the single-largest party in Rajasthan,winning 99 seats, while the BJP got 73. The Bahujan Samaj Party won 6 seats. Allying with the BSP will get it a simple majority of 105 seats. The Congress and the BJP declared their intention to form government with the help of others, including Independents, even before the final results were out.
Congress state president Kamal Nath submitted a letter to Governor Anandiben Patel,staking claim to form government late Tuesday night. He later said his party had the numbers to form government in the central state. “We have majority numbers with us to form the government. Even Independents, the Bahujan Samaj Party and the Samajwadi Party have also supported us. We have sought an appointment with the governor and we will apprise her about the majority figure that we have and request her to invite us to form the government,” Nath told reporters in the early hours of Wednesday. He said the party has called a meeting of its newly elected MLAs on Wednesday evening.
