India's ruling BJP set to form next gov't

India's ruling Bharatiya Janata Party is all set to form the next government in the eastern state of Jharkhand after comfortably crossing the majority mark in the assembly polls

The results of the polls were declared Tuesday.

The state's ruling Jharkhand Mukti Morcha, a regional party, barely managed to grab somewhere around 20 seats while the country 's main opposition Congress has been wiped out in the 81-member assembly.

Though Jharkhand has been battling Maoist violence, it had registered an overall 66 percent voter turnout in the five-phase elections over four weeks.

Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi campaigned in the assembly polls for the BJP, promising a stable government in Jharkhand, which over 14 years since its creation, has seen nine governments and three stints of President's Rule.

However, the BJP did not name a chief ministerial candidate and built its campaign around Modi and his development agenda.

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