Sunday, March 2, 2003, Chandigarh, India
Updated at 3:00 am (IST)

Cong captures power in HP
Wins 40 seats; 16 go to BJP
Shimla, March 1
The Congress in Himachal Pradesh won 40 out of the 65 Vidhan Sabha seats election for which was held on February 26. The ruling BJP could win only 16 seats, whereas its coalition partner, the Himachal Vikas Congress, secured only one seat.

FINAL PARTY POSITION

Total seats 68
Elections held 65
Results declared 65
Congress 40
BJP 16
Independents 06
Himachal Vikas Congress 01
Lok Janshakti Party 01
Himachal Loktantrik Morcha 01





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Mr Virbhadra Singh and Congress leaders show the victory sign

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Mr Virbhadra Singh and Congress leaders show the victory sign after the Himachal poll results in Shimla on Saturday.

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SPECIAL EDITORIAL
A people's verdict
Hari Jaisingh
T
he Congress in Himachal Pradesh has proved most political pandits wrong. It has registered an impressive victory in the hill state which might have surprised even its own leaders, whose drawing room calculations were mostly based on wrong assumptions, a misplaced Narendra Modi factor after the Gujarat verdict and quick-fix solutions.

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Congress President Sonia Gandhi today said that the party’s victory in Himachal Pradesh elections was a tremendous morale-booster and an answer to the Hindutva campaign of the BJP.

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New Delhi, March 1

Nearly three months after being humiliated in Gujarat, the Congress today staged a comeback, ousting the BJP in Himachal Pradesh, and emerged as the single largest party in Meghalaya, but was voted out in Nagaland while the Left Front retained power in Tripura.

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Sachin Tendulkar hits a shot during a group A match of the cricket World Cup between India and Pakistan in Centurion, South Africa, on Saturday. — Reuters photo

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Taking suo motu notice of a report appearing in The Tribune on Saturday about the SDM-cum-Returning Officer over ruling the decision of the State Election Commission regarding the nomination of a Congress candidate, Mr Prithivi Raj Doomra, for the coming Municipal Council Election, the SEC today again issued a directive not to include the name of Mr Doomra in the list of contesting candidates.

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