In Madhya Pradesh its Neck to Neck race is going on as both BJP is at 110 Seat and Congress also is at 110 seat rest remaining seats are with other hand in which Mayawati is going to play major part. As we all know majority can only form the party and rule Madhya Pradesh.
The counting is not over yet and there is still a possibility that it might lead to a cliffhanger.
Whatever the numbers might play out finally, given the marginal difference in seat share as per the current trends for the results, it is obvious that smaller regional outfits are going to play a key role in government formation as the two national parties are bound to approach them. Among them are Mayawati’s Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP), Gondwana Gantantra Party (GGP) led by Hira Singh Markam, and Akhilesh Yadav’s Samajwadi Party, apart from independent candidates.
This could well be the case as the BSP, which had won four Assembly seats in the 2013 elections holds significant influence in Dalit-dominated districts in Madhya Pradesh. The Congress and BSP failing to reach a pre-poll alliance now mean that these Dalit votes will be divided three ways between the two of them and the BJP, cutting into a vote share that could have cost the saffron party the state nearly.
However, in such a case, the BSP is more likely to lean towards the Congress, as BSP MLA from Ambah Satyaprakash Sakhwar confirmed. He told The Indian Express: “Our candidates and independents are the obvious choice for them. In a scenario where both will require BSP votes, Mayawatiji is more likely to lean towards the Congress.”
The Samajwadi Party, which fielded 51 candidates, and GGP, too, will play an important role in the final government formation in Madhya Pradesh. In the 2013 elections, even though the GGP did not win any of the 42 seats it contested, it secured 2.5 percent of the vote share. This makes it a key party to approach for both the BJP and Congress as at this moment, the Congress has a lead in 114 seats over the BJP’s 104, and the balance could tilt either way now depending on who makes the right offer to whom.
