Comfortable Majority With 68 Seats SAD-BJP

5 Dariya News

Chandigarh 06-Mar-2012

Beating the traditional anti-incumbency factor, the Shiromani Akali Dal-Bharatiya Janata Party combine bagged a comfortable majority with 68 seats in the 117-member Punjab assembly as results were declared. It is for the first time in over four decades that a government has been able to come back to power for a consecutive term in Punjab. "I want to thank the people of Punjab for the faith reposed in us again. I don't have the words to express my gratitude to them. They have given us such a big victory," a visibly happy Chief Minister Parkash Singh Badal said.