Former Haryana CM Bhupinder Singh Hooda AFP PHOTO/SAJJAD HUSSAIN (Photo credit should read SAJJAD HUSSAIN/AFP/Getty Images)As the counting of votes showed the Congress making major gains in Haryana on Thursday (24 October), party leader and former Chief Minister Bhupinder Singh Hooda told his cheering supporters that the party would get majority in the state.
"Congress ka bahumat ayega (Congress will get majority)," said Hooda, as counting trends indicated that the ruling BJP may not cross the half way mark.
Supporters of the former Haryana Chief Minister cheered and raised slogans of "Hooda zindabad" at his Rohtak residence.
Of the 90 seats for which elections were held, the BJP was below the halfway mark, while the Congress was seen to be gaining steadily.
(This story has been published from a wire agency feed without modifications to the text. Only the headline has been changed.)
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