Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi's party and its allies were set to return to power in the nation's richest state, television channels reported on Saturday, a boost for the Hindu-nationalist leader after a disappointing general election.

The party and its allies are however looking at a defeat in the mining state of Jharkhand.

Chief Minister Eknath Shinde celebrated Mahayuti's performance with party workers at his official residence Varsha. Celebrations began in Jharkhand also where JMM and allies are set to win the assembly polls.

And if four seats are being won then it is not that you have your government, you have used the entire machinery there, even after that you are still dragging, there somehow you are ahead by a margin of one or two thousand,

Vote tabulation is currently in progress for assembly elections in Maharashtra and Jharkhand, as well as bypolls in several states. In Maharashtra, the Mahayuti alliance is facing off against the Maha Vikas Aghadi,