Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) has won the regional vote in Arunachal Pradesh, a state bordering China, while a local party swept to power in Sikkim, a Himalayan state, officials and politicians said yesterday.
Provincial elections in Arunachal Pradesh and Sikkim were held on April 19, simultaneously with the first phase of the national polls.
The BJP comfortably retained power in Arunchal Pradesh by winning 45 of the 60 seats.
Modi on social media X said the people of Arunachal Pradesh had given “an unequivocal mandate to politics of development”.
A senior BJP politician Ashok Singhal said the results were a “curtain raiser” ahead of national election results that will be declared tomorrow.
“This is just the trailer ahead of the real show on June 4. The massive victory that PM Modi will win has started with Arunachal Pradesh,” he said.
