Meghalaya Election result 2018: Ahead of verdict, massive crowd gathers at Shillong Polo ground

Ahead of the Meghalaya state assembly election results, massive crowd gathered at Shillong Polo ground today.

A projector has been installed in the polo ground that displayed the ongoing counting votes for the state assembly polls.

#WATCH: Huge crowd at Shillong Polo ground where people can see counting trends through a projector #MeghalayaElection2018 pic.twitter.com/iBHVpy2pvl

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The counting for the voting held on February 18 for 59 Tripura assembly constituencies is underway. The election in Charilam constituency was postponed to March 12 after the death of Communist Party of India (Marxist) [CPI-M] candidate Ramendra Narayan Debbarma.

The tenure of 60-seat Tripura Legislative Assembly ends on March 6, 2018.

The BJP, which fielded candidates on 51 seats, fought the elections with an alliance with the Indigenous People's Front of Tripura (IPFT) that fielded nine candidates.

Apart from Prime Minister Narendra Modi and BJP President Amit Shah, many senior BJP leaders vigorously campaigned in Tripura.

While the CPIM-M fielded 57 candidates; the Communist Party of India (CPI), the Revolutionary Socialist Party (RSP), and the All India Forward Bloc (AIFB) fielded one candidate each.

The Congress Party fought elections on 59 seats, while the All India Trinamool Congress on 24 seats.

While the political parties in Tripura are keeping their fingers crossed, exit polls have given mixed predictions. Some have said the BJP will dethrone the Left Front led by Manik Sarkar, which has governed Tripura since the 1998 election.

However, the real picture will emerge after the counting ends on Saturday.

(With ANI inputs)