But the Congress has claimed that six of the nine rebel candidates have agreed to support. If that happens, the Congress numbers would swell to 46 - the magic number for a simple majority.
However, the BJP is desperately trying to keep the Congress from assuming power. The party has opened backroom dialogues to prevent the Congress from assuming power for the second term. It would be interesting to see if the BJP extends its hand of friendship to the INLD and try to rope in the Janhit Haryana Congress too. That will make a bloc of 41 MLAs. It is here that the independents would become the deciding factor.
The Congress emerged the single largest party in the Haryana assembly elections but was not able to get a clear victory. The party won 40 of the 90-member assembly seats, the INLD won 31, the Haryana Janhit Congress (HJC) won 6, the BJP 4 and Independents 7. The BSP won one seat in the state and the Shiromani Akali Dal (SAD) won one. The SAD is an alliance partner of the INLD.
For a simple majority in the assembly, the Congress needs 46 seats and so it is six short of a majority. It had won 67 seats in the February 2005 elections.
Had the BJP tied up with the INLD, the picture would have been totally different, say analysts. Party insiders blame Rajnath Singh for the `misadventure'.
The results were a dampener for the Bhupinder Singh Hooda-led Congress government that opted for early assembly polls -- seven months ahead of schedule -- to cash in on its victory in the May Lok Sabha polls when it won nine of the 10 seats.
Four ministers in the Hooda government -- Finance Minister Birender Singh, Transport Minister Mange Ram Gupta, Education Minister A.C. Chaudhary, and Cooperation Minister Meena Mandal -- as well as state Congress president Phool Chand Mullana lost in the election.
However, the main opposition Indian National Lok Dal (INLD) fared better than expected, winning 31 seats on its own. Its alliance partner, the Akali Dal, made its debut in the Haryana assembly by winning the Kalanwali (reserved) seat.
The total count of the INLD-Akali Dal combine was 31 seats won, way above its 2005 toll of nine seats. In the Lok Sabha elections as well, it had led in only seven assembly segments.
A visibly happy INLD president Om Prakash Chautala asked Haryana Governor Jagannath Pahadia to call the opposition parties to form the next government in the state.
"People of Haryana have exposed the wrong-doings of the Hooda government. On moral grounds, the Hooda government should resign. We will form the next government," Chautala told reporters.
Earlier chief minister Hooda admitted the results were not to his liking.
"Yes, the results are not as per our expectation. But the Congress is going to create history by forming a government in Haryana for the second term. We will examine why we ended up with fewer seats. The Congress will form the next government in Haryana."
Dear Mr. var_on its good that you have a praise for Congress. But you should not have ignored the development in the Industrial sector, which is not on the basis of any Electricity provided by Mr. Hooda but by the electricity generated by these industrial units on using generators. hooda has given very very long power cuts to the industries as well as the households that had they not made their own arrangements to run the factories then they would have not survived.
Except during Election periods (Both Lok Sabha & Assembly) they failed to provide electricity. As a result of electricity cuts even the water supplies remained affected, so think how to survive without water. Even during these starting winter months Mr. Hooda is depending on these Power Cuts during each day.
State has seen no educational, infrastructural and industrial development during tenure of INLD. In fact so much of pressure were put on the businessman who wants' to setup industry in state. They just know how to play with sentiments of poor farmers but that will not be story any longer.
Literates understand the efforts of Hooda GOVT. So do they act that's why Congress is stills ahead and will 100% form GOVT in succession.
CONGRATULATIONs to noble man Mr. Hooda we welcome you to form the GOVT again.
JAI JAWAN, JAI KISAN and JAI ENGINEER