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The Bharatiya Janata Party-led Mahayuti coloured Maharashtra a vivid saffron on Saturday as it swept aside the Maha Vikas Aghadi for a landslide win while the opposition Indian National Developmental Inclusive Alliance (INDIA) retained Jharkhand, voters in both states giving the parties in power an emphatic thumbs up.
The Bharatiya Janata Party won 132 of the 149 seats it contested in Maharashtra.
Together with its partners Shiv Sena and Nationalist Congress Party, the ruling Mahayuti alliance could win 230 of the 288 seats in the state, leaving the Congress-Shiv Sena(UBT)-NCP(SP) tie-up virtually decimated with just 50 seats.
As the opposition reeled under the impact of the decisive mandate against it in Maharashtra, Jharkhand offered consolation with voters giving a possible two-third victory to the JMM-led alliance.
In the 81-seat Jharkhand assembly, the BJP won in 21 seats, while the Chief Minister Hemant Soren's JMM scored 34, the Congress 16, the RJD four and the CPI-ML in two, adding to 56 seats, according to the Election Commission website.
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