Haryana gets hung Assembly, BJP needs 6 more to form govt

Chandigarh : Haryana on Thursday ended up with a hung assembly with the ruling BJP emerging as the largest party with 40 seats, but still six short of the halfway mark needed to form the next government.

The Congress won 31 seats, the Jannayak Janta Party 10, the Indian National Lok Dal and Haryana Lokhit Party one each. The Aam Aadmi Party, which contested 46 seats, was decimated. The split verdict triggered hectic political activity.

At least two independents had boarded a flight to Delhi for a meeting with BJP leadership, party sources said.

The BJP's final tally came as a disappointment for a party that had won all 10 parliamentary seats in the 2019 Lok Sabha polls, and predicted that it will cross 75 seats this time in the assembly. But eight of 10 ministers fielded by the BJP lost.