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Politics
Sarah Shamim

India’s BJP wins Haryana, Kashmir favours Congress alliance: What to know

Election staff members count postal ballots as polling agents look on inside a vote counting centre in Srinagar on Tuesday [Sharafat Ali/Reuters]

India’s governing Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) is set to register a surprise win in the northern state of Haryana, although an opposition alliance was ahead in the first assembly elections in Indian-administered Kashmir in a decade.

Exit polls had projected a win in Haryana for the opposition Congress party, but the BJP managed to come back to power in the state for a third term, months after suffering electoral losses in the parliamentary elections.

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