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After exit polls had predicted a rout of the Congress-JD(S) alliance in the state, Roshan Baig dropped hints he could join the BJP and slammed the grand old party for its 'flop poll campaigning'.

BJP president Amit Shah could be a candidate to take up the finance ministry, according to a senior minister in the current government, who did not want to be named due to the sensitivity of the issue.

Floated by Gujarat based tribal leader Chhotu Vasava, BTP's two candidates had won in Rajasthan Assembly seats last year

The veteran politician attributed his party's success in the Lok Sabha elections to its excellent welfare and development programmes for the state's residents.

Since the Wayanad Lok Sabha constituency was formed in 2009, it has elected a Congress leader in both 2009 and 2014 general elections.

During the campaigns, especially before the fourth and the final phase of polls, Narendra Modi and Naveen Patnaik had engaged in a bitter exchange of tirades at each other.

The BJP has retained Indore, a traditional bastion of the party, with its nominee Shankar Lalwani defeating Congress's Pankaj Sanghvi by a staggering margin of 5,47,754 votes.

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