A day after the election result did not turn out as expected for BJP, its Jharkhand poll co-in-charge Himanta Biswa Sarma said that he had .

Assam chief minister Himanta Biswa Sarma said on Sunday that he “never” claimed that the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) would win the assembly election in Jharkhand and form the next government, news agency PTI reported.

The 2024 Jharkhand Assembly elections took place in two phases, with voting for the Dhanwar constituency held on November 20

The Bharatiya Janata Party’s Champai Soren won the Jharkhand Assembly polls from the Seraikela constituency on Saturday by 20,447 votes. The former chief minister has served five terms as the MLA from Seraikela. He secured 1,19,379 of the total votes counted.

The Soren family consolidates its political power with three victories in the 2024 assembly elections. Sita Soren, who contested on a BJP ticket, is the only family member to face defeat.

BJP fought the Jharkhand election in its trade-mark aggressive style by raising issues such as 'corruption' and 'Bangladeshi infiltration', but it seems they did not go well among voters, prompting the INDIA bloc to retain power in the state.

Assam CM Himanta Biswa Sarma discusses Jharkhand election defeat, emphasizes need to address infiltration issue in the state.

The only ST seat that saffron party could win was thanks to the turncoat former CM Champai Soren, who had quit JMM to join the BJP and won his Saraikella seat on a BJP ticket

At the peak of his popularity following a massive mandate in Pulwama-powered 2019 Lok Sabha polls, Narendra Modi twisted the knife deeper months later in Jharkhand when he remarked that he could identify rioters by their clothes.