NCP wins 3 seats; significant step to regain national status, says Praful Patel

The Ajit Pawarled Nationalist Congress Party NCP won three seats in the Arunachal Pradesh Assembly elections results of which were declared on SaturdayIn a statement the party hailed the leadership of Maharashtra Deputy Chief Minister Pawar and Praful Patel with the latter taking to social media platform X to assert that the victory was a significant step on our journey to regain national party status reported the PTIThe Bharatiya Janata Party BJP returned to power in Arunachal Pradesh for the third time in a row after winning 46 seats in the 60member assembly Election Commission officials said during the day as per the PTIApart from the BJP the National Peoples Party NPEP won five seats the NCP three the Peoples Party of Arunachal PPA two the Congress one and Independents threeOur newly elected MLAs Nikil Kamin Likha Soni and Toku Tatum are poised to make substantial contributions to the states development and political landscape the NCP party said in a statementThe NCP which garnered 1006 percent of the total vote is dedicated to upholding democratic values and promoting socioeconomic development across India under the leadership of Ajit Pawar and Praful Patel the statement addedIn a message on X Praful Patel said The success marks a significant step on our journey to regain national party status With previous victories in Maharashtra Nagaland and now Arunachal Pradesh we are just one state away from achieving our goalA momentous victory for the NCP We are thrilled to announce that the Nationalist Congress Party has won 3 Vidhan Sabha seats and secured more than 1037 of the vote share in Arunachal Pradesh This incredible success marks a significant step on our journey to regaining Nationalhellip pictwittercomnrlnCJnWErmdash Praful Patel praful_patel June 2 2024Assembly elections were held simultaneously with Lok Sabha polls in the north eastern state on April 19 Counting for the states two Lok Sabha seats will take place on June 4The result of the Assembly elections in the northeastern states of Sikkim and Arunachal Pradesh will be announced on Sunday two days ahead of the counting of votes for the Lok Sabha elections Polling for 32 assembly seats in Sikkim was held simultaneously on April 19 in the first phase of the just concluded Lok Sabha electionswith PTI inputs