Saffron cover spreads over India's political map

FAR AND WIDE: Bihar, Chhattisgarh, Gujarat, Madhya Pradesh, Punjab, Rajasthan and Uttarakhand are with the NDA.

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New Delhi: With its thumping win in Himachal Pradesh, the NDA has extended the saffron cover to over three-fourth of North India on Friday.

And an elated BJP declared after the Himachal verdict that its next target will be to take over Delhi in the next general elections.

With Himachal and Gujarat in its bag, the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) and it's National Democratic Alliance (NDA) allies are now in power in 10 states.

In the north of the Vindhyas, the BJP or NDA allies are in power in Bihar, Chhattisgarh, Gujarat, Madhya Pradesh, Punjab, Rajasthan and Uttarakhand.

The political map of the rest of India shows that governments led by the Congress and its United Progressive Alliance (UPA) partners are in power in 11 states while three states, including Uttar Pradesh, are ruled by parties which are not aligned to either the NDA or the UPA,

In the north only Haryana, Jharkhand and Delhi are in UPA’s kitty.

The Communist Party of India-Marxist (CPI-M), which gives outside support to the UPA government at the Centre, is in power in Kerala, West Bengal and Tripura.