On a super Sunday BJP ended up with absolute majority in Rajasthan.
BJP made a landslide victory where it won 162 seats, while ruling Congress collapsed in just 21.
National People's Party candidates have won 4 seats whereas BSP has won 3 seats and the Independent candidates have won in 9 constituencies.
With trends indicating a clean sweep for the BJP, celebrations have already broken out in the party office with workers congratulating each other.
"We are confident that the party will come to power with clear majority and it will be a thumping victory," said a party worker outside the BJP office.
Party workers gathered in large numbers and raise slogans 'Raje zindabad, NAMO zindabad'.
Rajasthan Chief Minister Ashok Gehot, whose party is staring at a massive defeat in the Assembly elections here, will meet Governor Margaret Alva this evening. He will meet Alva at 7 PM in Raj Bhawan, sources said.
Earlier, as election result trends showed his party losing power, Gehlot said that his party had provided good governance and also benefitted the people through its schemes but an "undercurrent" seems to have worked against Congress in Rajasthan.
Some of the constituencies in which BJP candidates are leading are Aspur, Bhilwara, Mandal, Pindwara-Abu, and Udaipur district against their nearest rivals of Congress.
Vasundhra Raje, who delivered a staggering victory for the BJP in Rajasthan, on Sunday credited her success to the party's prime ministerial candidate, Narendra Modi, currently the chief minister of Gujarat.
"Modi is a very big factor. People have seen what he has done in Gujarat," said the woman who's likely to be the new chief minister of Rajasthan.
The ruling Congress drew flak over its choice of candidates when it fielded the relatives of two politicians in jail in connection with the Bhanwari Devi murder case.
What helped Maharani to return to power!
Vasundhara Raje, who failed five years ago on account of infighting in BJP, reinvented herself and galvanised the cadre to spearhead her party's spectacular comeback to power in Rajasthan.
The way she changed herself from 2008 and the election campaign in which she completely devoted herself proved out to be worth. Raje went ahead to small villages and interacted with the farmers and tribals and heeded their issues patiently.
At a personal level, she is more of the quintessential modern woman leader who is as much at ease in the traditional tribal dress hearing out the concerns of village population as she enjoyed walking the ramp or interacting with celebrities in royal parties.
Why was Gehlot-led Congress ousted!
"Ashok Gehlot is facing anti-incumbency due to the Central government as well. It is a double anti-incumbency both caused by the state and the Centre," senior journalist Kumar Ketkar told CNN-IBN.
Also the non-charismatic image of CM Ashok Gehlot is a major factor for defeat of Congress in the state. The Rajasthan government also cannot escape from the mistakes it has committed by blaming Central policies alone. For the complete five years the Congress government has hardly done any significant work. Seniors ministers of state also went to jail because of serious crimes and then the communal riots of Bharatpur and Gopalganj besides family members of Gehlot who were allegedly caught in the sand mining scam proved out to the worst for the party. Also the price rise of the daily households, over which the state government had little control.
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