eye THE SUNDAY EXPRESS MAGAZINE THE WOKE PEOPLE AHMEDABAD, LATECITY November24,2024 More Indians across ages are catching fewer hours of sleep than ever before 16+4 PAGES,`6.00 DAILY FROM: AHMEDABAD, CHANDIGARH, DELHI, JAIPUR, KOLKATA, LUCKNOW, MUMBAI, NAGPUR, PUNE, VADODARA WWW.INDIANEXPRESS.COM FOUR-PAGE PULLOUT A WIN FOR DEVELOPMENT, GOOD GOVERNANCE: PM; MAHARASHTRA RESULTS UNEXPECTED, WILL ANALYSE: RAHUL BJPMahabounceback,OppkeepsJharkhand MAHARASHTRA Mahayuti back with BJP just 13 short of majority JHARKHAND Hemant Soren set to return as CM: ‘passed exam of democracy’ Maharashtra’s message With strike rate almost 90%, BJP washes out Sharad Pawar, Uddhav ‘ek hain toh safe hain’ now mantra of India: PM ZEESHAN SHAIKH, SANDEEP SINGH & LIZ MATHEW MUMBAI, NEW DELHI, NOVEMBER 23 PRIMEMINISTERNarendraModi on Saturday hailed the Maharashtra verdict as an endorsementof his“ekhaintohsafe hain” (together, we are safe) call for unity, and a defeat of “those whosoughttodivideoncaste,religion,languageandregion”lines. Addressing party workers at the BJP office in the evening, he said:“AfterHaryana,themessage BUSINESS AS USUAL NEW DELHI, NOVEMBER 23 CONTINUED ON PAGE 2 Maharashtra CM Eknath Shinde, Deputy CMs Devendra Fadnavis, Ajit Pawar celebrate in Mumbai. Sankhadeep Banerjee BY UNNY LALMANI VERMA NEW DELHI, NOVEMBER 23 STUNG HARD by its defeat in Maharashtra, close on the heels of the setback in Assembly elections in Haryana, the Congress Saturday once again questioned the integrity of the electoral process, invoking Electronic CONTINUED ON PAGE 2 THE VAV seat that had been won by the Congress in three of five general elections since 2002, went to the Bharatiya Janata Partyinthebypollwithitscandidate Swarupji Thakor, winning by a margin of 2,442 votes — the lowest victory margin ever recorded for this seat, in the results declared Saturday. YEAR 2022 2017 2012 2007 2002 145 132 (+27) 26.8% Others SS NCP 12.4% 9% SS (UBT) Vote share in% 20 10% INC 16 (-28) 12.4% 11.3% 2019 UndividedNCP UndividedSena LOSER SwarupjiThakor(BJP) ShankerChaudhary(BJP) GenibenThakor(Cong) MavjiPatel(Ind) ParbatPatel(BJP) Rajput for majority of the CONTINUEDONPAGE2 41 57 10 WINNER GenibenThakor(Cong) GenibenThakor(Cong) ShankarChaudhary(BJP) ParbatPatel(BJP) HemajiRajput(Cong) Thakor, who was trailing Congress candidate Gulabsinh 288 MAJORITY MARK NCP (SP) CONTINUED ON PAGE 2 AHMEDABAD, NOVEMBER 23 ASSEMBLY SEATS 12 Inexplicable, manipulation: After losing citadel Vav to BJP in close Its Lok Sabha gains gone, contest, Cong down to 1 in Banaskantha Cong sees plot behind rout LEENA MISRA VAV IN NUMBERS Voting Machines (EVMs) and alleging “manipulation” and a “conspiracy” behind its rout. After the defeat in Haryana last month, the Congress had, in an unprecedented move, declared that it would not accept the verdict, alleging there was a “conspiracy” hatched through “manipulation” of EVMs, a MAHARASHTRA BJP VIKAS PATHAK AFTER BEING reduced to single digits in the Lok Sabha elections justfivemonthsback,theBJP-led Mahayuti staged a resounding comeback,winning230ofthetotal288seatsintheAssemblypolls inMaharashtra,thestatewiththe highest GDP in the country. Comingasitdoesontheback of a surprise win in Haryana in October, it was the scale of BJP’s VERDICT 2024 54(16.7%) 56(16.4%) JHARKHAND ASSEMBLY SEATS 81 MAJORITY MARK 41 JMM INC RJD (+4) 23.4% 15.6% (+3) 3.4% 34 Others 16 4 BJP 21 (-4)33.2% Back from jail, Soren scripts win in face of BJP’s infiltration pitch less than the last Assembly elections. With a vote share of RANCHI, NOV 23 33.18 per cent in the 68 seats it conHEMANT SOREN is tested, it managed set to return as the to win only one Jharkhand Chief tribal reserved seat. HEMANT SOREN Minister after the With its allies JHARKHAND CM INDIA bloc, powAJSU winning one PAGE 7 ered by his Jharkhseat out of the 10 it and Mukti Morcha contested, the LJP (JMM), took the lead in 56 of the (Ram Vilas) winning the only 81 Assembly constituencies in seat where it fought, and the the state. JD(U) winning one of the two The BJP won 21 seats — four CONTINUED ON PAGE 2 ABHISHEK ANGAD THE EXPRESS INTERVIEW Vote share in% 4 Jharkhand CM Hemant Soren with his sons as the Assembly poll results were announced in Ranchi on Saturday. PTI CPI (ML)(L) 2 (+1) 1.9% +/-: Change in seats from 2019 Assembly elections; Source: ECI PUT YOUR FACE ON GRAB YOUR CHANCE TO WIN US$1 MILLION AND BE AMONG THE LUCKY 5,000. BUY YOUR TICKET AT DUBAIDUTYFREE.COM Ahmedabad