New Delhi: The BJP was on course to become the single largest party on Tuesday but may fall well short of an absolute majority, forcing it to depend on its NDA allies to form the government, while the opposition Bharat faction looks set to become a stronger force. .
As the votes were being counted for the Lok Sabha elections and the hours were passing by, the trends were not showing the clear picture that the ruling coalition had expected and what the exit polls had predicted.
Signaling a change in the dominance of single-party rule and a return to coalition politics, the BJP was leading or had won 246 seats, well short of the magic number of 272 in the House of 543. NDA's strength was 300. At the other end of the spectrum, the India Bloc was leading on 227 seats and the Congress was leading or winning on 96 seats, almost double its 2019 score.In the last elections, BJP had 303 seats on its own, while NDA had more than 350 seats.
Narendra Modi was on track to equal Jawaharlal Nehru's record as Prime Minister for a third consecutive term, but this time his tally fell short as his BJP lost Uttar Pradesh, where the Samajwadi Party could defeat him, This could not happen in Rajasthan and Haryana. He got the expected benefits in the south.
In a scenario that was expected to be black and white, with a lot of shades of grey, some leaders were quick to speak out. "This is not a close contest," BJP national general secretary Arun Singh said. BJP led NDA is going to form its government with an overwhelming majority. Let the counting end, everything will become clear. The people of the country are with Modi.
Congress's Jairam Ramesh took advantage of the opportunity to hit out at Modi, saying, "He used to pretend that he was extraordinary."
“Now it has been proved that the outgoing Prime Minister is going to become the former.Take moral responsibility and resign. This is the message of this election,” he said in a post on X. The surprise mandate came in Uttar Pradesh, the country's most politically important state with 80 seats.
The alliance of SP and Congress turned the tide in BJP's strongest bastion by ensuring consolidation of anti-BJP votes, reducing the party to only 36 seats compared to 62 seats it had won last time. Akhilesh Yadav-led SP is far behind with a lead on 34 seats, a huge jump from five seats in 2019. Congress can win six seats.Modi ahead by 1.52 lakh votes in Varanasi. However, his party colleague Smriti Irani was trailing in Amethi by over 1.31 lakh votes to Congress candidate and relatively unknown associate of the Gandhi family, Kishori Lal Sharma. Among those leading from the state, where Yogi Adityanath has promoted Hindutva for his party Among them were Rahul Gandhi from Rae Bareli, Rajnath Singh from Lucknow and Akhilesh Yadav from Kannauj.
As SP chief Akhilesh Yadav keeps the morale of the Indian block high in Uttar Pradesh, Trinamool Congress, another key ally of the opposition alliance, is leading on 29 seats in West Bengal, slightly more than its 22 seats in 2019 . In the last Lok Sabha elections, he was ahead in 12 seats.
Madhya Pradesh has gone completely saffron with BJP winning or leading on all 29 seats. Even in Gujarat, BJP was winning or leading in 25 out of 26 seats. In other states the situation was not as decisive.In Bihar, the BJP was ahead on 12 seats and its ally JDU was ahead on 13 seats, a vote of confidence for its leader Nitish Kumar, who defected from India to the NDA ahead of the elections. RJD was on course to win four seats.
In Rajasthan, BJP is ahead in only 14 seats, whereas last time its alliance had won all 25 seats. Congress is ahead on eight seats. There were surprising results for BJP in Haryana too, where the party was ahead on only five seats and Congress on five seats. In 2019, the saffron party had won all 10 seats.The election appeared to signal a return to regular politics, where voters were more concerned about bread-and-butter issues, especially in some Hindi-speaking states where the opposition Bharat Alliance was trying to unite supporters around the issues of unemployment and price rise. I succeeded.
Shiv Sena had split in the middle since the last elections in Maharashtra, which has 48 Lok Sabha seats. The BJP, which had won 23 seats five years ago, was leading on 11 seats, while its ally Shiv Sena could get seven seats. At the other end of the spectrum, the Congress was ahead on 12 seats, up from one, and the Shiv Sena (UBT) was ahead on 19 seats. Was ahead. The NCP Sharad Pawar faction could get seven seats, giving India a consensus alliance.Dislikes BJP, 38 seats possible.
However, Union ministers Nitin Gadkari and Piyush Goyal provided a ray of hope as they looked headed for easy wins in Nagpur and Mumbai North respectively.
In Odisha, the BJP is performing brilliantly, leading in 19 out of 21 seats, while the ruling Biju Janata Dal is reduced to just one seat. It also led in the Odisha Assembly elections, winning 76 out of 146 seats, a successful performance in a state it had never managed to capture. In Andhra Pradesh, the Chandrababu Naidu-led TDP won 25 out of It was ahead on 16 seats, BJP was ahead on three and YSRCP was ahead on four seats.
Trends from Karnataka show that Congress may get a lead in nine seats, which is more than last time.BJP, which got 25 seats in 2019, is ahead on 17.
Farther south in Kerala, the BJP may make its much-talked-about election entry in Thrissur with trends showing actor Suresh Gopi moving forward. Congress, which had won 15 seats last time, is leading on 14, including Wayanad, from where Rahul Gandhi is contesting. In one case, CPI-M benefited. It seemed that Tamil Nadu was writing another story by not giving any place to the saffron party. The ruling DMK is leading on 22 seats and ally Congress on nine, one notch higher than the situation in 2019.
Assembly elections also wrote their own story.
In Odisha, the Naveen Patnaik-led BJD was headed for an unexpected defeat, hampering Patnaik's bid for a record sixth term as chief minister.BJP has taken early lead in at least 79 assembly seats in Odisha. On the other hand, BJD candidates are leading in 48 seats and 147 assembly seats in the state. In Andhra Pradesh, Chandrababu Naidu's Telugu Desam Party is heading to power with a lead in 135 seats out of 175, which is headed by Y.S. Jagan Reddy's YSRCP, which was leading on only 11 seats, is set to oust.BJP has lead on eight seats.
As the votes were being counted for the Lok Sabha elections and the hours were passing by, the trends were not showing the clear picture that the ruling coalition had expected and what the exit polls had predicted.
Signaling a change in the dominance of single-party rule and a return to coalition politics, the BJP was leading or had won 246 seats, well short of the magic number of 272 in the House of 543. NDA's strength was 300. At the other end of the spectrum, the India Bloc was leading on 227 seats and the Congress was leading or winning on 96 seats, almost double its 2019 score.In the last elections, BJP had 303 seats on its own, while NDA had more than 350 seats.
Narendra Modi was on track to equal Jawaharlal Nehru's record as Prime Minister for a third consecutive term, but this time his tally fell short as his BJP lost Uttar Pradesh, where the Samajwadi Party could defeat him, This could not happen in Rajasthan and Haryana. He got the expected benefits in the south.
In a scenario that was expected to be black and white, with a lot of shades of grey, some leaders were quick to speak out. "This is not a close contest," BJP national general secretary Arun Singh said. BJP led NDA is going to form its government with an overwhelming majority. Let the counting end, everything will become clear. The people of the country are with Modi.
Congress's Jairam Ramesh took advantage of the opportunity to hit out at Modi, saying, "He used to pretend that he was extraordinary."
“Now it has been proved that the outgoing Prime Minister is going to become the former.Take moral responsibility and resign. This is the message of this election,” he said in a post on X. The surprise mandate came in Uttar Pradesh, the country's most politically important state with 80 seats.
The alliance of SP and Congress turned the tide in BJP's strongest bastion by ensuring consolidation of anti-BJP votes, reducing the party to only 36 seats compared to 62 seats it had won last time. Akhilesh Yadav-led SP is far behind with a lead on 34 seats, a huge jump from five seats in 2019. Congress can win six seats.Modi ahead by 1.52 lakh votes in Varanasi. However, his party colleague Smriti Irani was trailing in Amethi by over 1.31 lakh votes to Congress candidate and relatively unknown associate of the Gandhi family, Kishori Lal Sharma. Among those leading from the state, where Yogi Adityanath has promoted Hindutva for his party Among them were Rahul Gandhi from Rae Bareli, Rajnath Singh from Lucknow and Akhilesh Yadav from Kannauj.
As SP chief Akhilesh Yadav keeps the morale of the Indian block high in Uttar Pradesh, Trinamool Congress, another key ally of the opposition alliance, is leading on 29 seats in West Bengal, slightly more than its 22 seats in 2019 . In the last Lok Sabha elections, he was ahead in 12 seats.
Madhya Pradesh has gone completely saffron with BJP winning or leading on all 29 seats. Even in Gujarat, BJP was winning or leading in 25 out of 26 seats. In other states the situation was not as decisive.In Bihar, the BJP was ahead on 12 seats and its ally JDU was ahead on 13 seats, a vote of confidence for its leader Nitish Kumar, who defected from India to the NDA ahead of the elections. RJD was on course to win four seats.
In Rajasthan, BJP is ahead in only 14 seats, whereas last time its alliance had won all 25 seats. Congress is ahead on eight seats. There were surprising results for BJP in Haryana too, where the party was ahead on only five seats and Congress on five seats. In 2019, the saffron party had won all 10 seats.The election appeared to signal a return to regular politics, where voters were more concerned about bread-and-butter issues, especially in some Hindi-speaking states where the opposition Bharat Alliance was trying to unite supporters around the issues of unemployment and price rise. I succeeded.
Shiv Sena had split in the middle since the last elections in Maharashtra, which has 48 Lok Sabha seats. The BJP, which had won 23 seats five years ago, was leading on 11 seats, while its ally Shiv Sena could get seven seats. At the other end of the spectrum, the Congress was ahead on 12 seats, up from one, and the Shiv Sena (UBT) was ahead on 19 seats. Was ahead. The NCP Sharad Pawar faction could get seven seats, giving India a consensus alliance.Dislikes BJP, 38 seats possible.
However, Union ministers Nitin Gadkari and Piyush Goyal provided a ray of hope as they looked headed for easy wins in Nagpur and Mumbai North respectively.
In Odisha, the BJP is performing brilliantly, leading in 19 out of 21 seats, while the ruling Biju Janata Dal is reduced to just one seat. It also led in the Odisha Assembly elections, winning 76 out of 146 seats, a successful performance in a state it had never managed to capture. In Andhra Pradesh, the Chandrababu Naidu-led TDP won 25 out of It was ahead on 16 seats, BJP was ahead on three and YSRCP was ahead on four seats.
Trends from Karnataka show that Congress may get a lead in nine seats, which is more than last time.BJP, which got 25 seats in 2019, is ahead on 17.
Farther south in Kerala, the BJP may make its much-talked-about election entry in Thrissur with trends showing actor Suresh Gopi moving forward. Congress, which had won 15 seats last time, is leading on 14, including Wayanad, from where Rahul Gandhi is contesting. In one case, CPI-M benefited. It seemed that Tamil Nadu was writing another story by not giving any place to the saffron party. The ruling DMK is leading on 22 seats and ally Congress on nine, one notch higher than the situation in 2019.
Assembly elections also wrote their own story.
In Odisha, the Naveen Patnaik-led BJD was headed for an unexpected defeat, hampering Patnaik's bid for a record sixth term as chief minister.BJP has taken early lead in at least 79 assembly seats in Odisha. On the other hand, BJD candidates are leading in 48 seats and 147 assembly seats in the state. In Andhra Pradesh, Chandrababu Naidu's Telugu Desam Party is heading to power with a lead in 135 seats out of 175, which is headed by Y.S. Jagan Reddy's YSRCP, which was leading on only 11 seats, is set to oust.BJP has lead on eight seats.
