Jharkhand Election result will be announced by today evening, BJP seems in close fight with the Congress-JMM combine. The Congress and JMM has already crossed the majority mark with 45 seats out of 81 assembly seats. BJP is at second place with 25 seats.
The counting began in all the 24 district headquarters of Jharkhand at 8 am. In the Lok Sabha elections held earlier this year, the BJP had won 11 of the 14 seats in the state. The party lost Rajasthan and Madhya Pradesh to Congress last year.