Most of the newly-elected Congress legislators, who met at the first post-poll meeting of the Congress Legislature Party in Chandigarh, want the incumbent Chief Minister, Mr Bhupinder Singh Hooda, to continue in office.
The Congress leadership has kept all “options” open on the issue of the Maharashtra chief ministership. The party is set to form a government for a third successive time with the Sharad Pawar-led NCP in Maharashtra.
The BJP, which was yet to overcome from the Lok Sabha poll defeat, got another jolt on Thursday when Assembly polls results of Maharashtra, Haryana and Arunachal Pradesh were declared.
With two-third majority, Dorjee Khandu, a former officer of the Indian Army Intelligence Core, is all set to be re-elected as Chief Minister of the frontier state of Arunachal Pradesh.