Cong accepts defeat in Delhi, MP, Rajasthan

Delhi
Seats Declared: 70/70
Parties	Leads	Won	Total (L + W)
Cong	0	8	8
BJP	0	31	31
AAP	0	28	28
Others	0	3	3

PTI, New Delhi, Dec 8 : Congress accepted defeat in Delhi, Madhya Pradesh and Rajasthan on Sunday, saying it was disappointed with the poll outcome.”The results in Delhi, Madhya Pradesh and Rajasthan are disappointing.... Congress accepts its defeat with great humility.... We concede that we have lost there,” party spokesman Randeep Singh Surjewala said when asked about the trends.

He, however, dismissed suggestions that the performance of BJP in the Assembly polls was an indication that the party could sweep the Lok Sabha election next year.He recalled that BJP had won 2003 Assembly polls but lost badly in the Lok Sabha elections.

Madhya Pradesh
Seats Declared: 226/230
Parties	Leads	Won	Total (L + W)
Cong	0	58	58
BJP	3	162	165
BSP	1	4	5
Others	0	2	2

”Any celebration ahead of the 2014 Lok Sabha polls will be premature. BJP refuses to learn from history.... There was similar sort of upbeat mood in the BJP in 2004, when the NDA had lost,” he said.

Surjewala also said that Chhattisgarh “is a ray of hope” and Mizoram “will also bring some cheer”. Expressing suprise over the results in Delhi, where the debutant Aam Aadmi Party is competing with BJP for the first place, AICC general secretary in-charge for the state Shakeel Ahmed said, “We were not expecting these results. The reasons for this will be analysed”.

Chhattisgarh
Seats Declared: 90/90
Parties	Leads	Won	Total (L + W)
Cong	0	39	39
BJP	0	49	49
BSP	0	1	1
Others	0	1	1

Congress has been in power in Delhi for 15 years with Shiela Dikshit having the distinction of the longest-serving woman Chief Minister in independent India. In the last Assembly polls, the Congress had won as many as 43 seats in the 70-member legislative Assembly and its fortunes have dwindled sharply this time with the party likely to get less than 10 seats.

Congress leader Abhishek Singhvi dismissed suggestions that the trends showed that there was a wave in favour of BJP Prime Ministerial candidate Narendra Modi in the country.

Congress leader and Union Minister Shashi Tharoor said his party has very capable and experienced political leaders who are surely going to analyse in detail and find what corrective measures are needed.

He said across the the country there were regional parties and areas where the BJP has no presence. ”So we should not be too hasty in suddenly seeing a sort of tsunami in favour of party that has done well today,” Tharoor sai.

AAP makes stunning debut, BJP short of majority in Delhi

PTI: Newcomer Aam Admi Party (AAP) today made a stunning debut in electoral politics by winning or leading in 27 of the 70 Assembly seats in Delhi and stopping the BJP short of a majority in an election that toppled the three-time Congress Chief Minister Sheila Dikshit. 

Following the trends that showed that the Congress was facing a rout in the Assembly, Mrs Dikshit conceded defeat sending her resignation to Lt-Governor Najeeb Jung and said the party will analyse what went wrong in the election. 

Rajasthan
Seats Declared: 199/199
Parties	Leads	Won	Total (L + W)
Cong	0	21	21
BJP	0	162	162
BSP	0	1	1
Others	0	15	15

As per results and trends, the BJP was all set to get around 32 seats while the AAP, whose entry in the fight added a third dimension to the otherwise two sided contest, was likely to get around 27 seats. 

“We accept our defeat and we will analyse what went wrong. We respect what the people of Delhi have decided and thank them for supporting us for last 15 years,” Mrs Dikshit told reporters at her residence during a brief appearance after sending her resignation to Jung. 

The three-term chief minister herself lost to Arvind Kejriwal by a huge margin of 25,864 votes in the New Delhi constituency in a shocking defeat.