New Delhi: Narendra Modi meets her mother. Touches her feet and gets her blessings. Narendra Modi tweets: India has won, good days are coming. Narendra Modi wins from Varanasi, defeats Aam Aadmi Party chief Arvind Kejriwal and Congress’ candidate Ajay Rai. Modi has also won from Vadodara constituency by a margin of over 4 lakh votes.
After 30 years of coalition governments at the Centre, Narendra Modi has powered the BJP to an historic win as the party is set to win over 272 seats on its own, with the NDA on course to bag over 310 seats. The Narendra Modi wave has really turned out to be a Tsunami that has swept away almost all others.
Narendra Modi-led BJP and its allies are set to sweep Lok Sabha polls 2014. BJP+ is ahead in 306 seats out of the 512 for which trends are available. The Congress is staring at its worst performance ever with the party ahead in less than 70 seats. Of the regional parties, Mamata’s Trinamool Congress is leading in 30 of the total 42 seats in Bengal. In Uttar Pradesh, the Samajwadi Party and Bahujan Samaj Party are ahead in only 14 and 8 seats respectively.
Narendra Modi wins from Vadodara. Latest trends/results (486/543): BJP+ 293 seats, Congress+ 74 seats, AIADMK 18, BSP 9, SP 13, Left 13, JDU 1, AAP 1, and Others 41. First result – RLD leader Ajit Singh has lost against former Mumbai police commissioner Satyapal Singh of the BJP.The stock markets have also joined the party with the Sensex crossing 25,000 mark. Rahul Gandhi slips to number 3 in Amethi; Smriti Irani is leading, followed by Kumar Vishwas of AAP.
Big trends now available (393/543) – BJP+ ahead in 205 seats, Congress+ 96 seats, AIADMK 13, BSP 7, SP 9, Left 16, JDU 1, AAP 1, Others 30. Latest trends (235/543) – BJP+ ahead in 147 seats, Congress+ 60 seats, BSP 2, AIADMK 5, BSP 4, SP 6 Others 11.
Narendra Modi is ahead from Varanasi and Vadodara. Sonia Gandhi is ahead in Rae Bareli. Former army chief VK Singh, Hema Malini and Uma Bharti are leading in Ghaizabad, Mathura and Jhansi respectively. Congress’ Shashi Tharoor is trailing from Thiruvananthapuram.
Latest trends available for 42 of the 543 Lok Sabha seats – BJP+ ahead in 28 seats, Congress+ 8 seats, BSP 1, AIADMK 2, Others . First trends: BJP+ ahead in 3 seats, Congress+ in 1 seat. Counting of votes has begun at 989 centres spread across 28 states and seven union territories. Nearby 8,000 candidates in the fray for the 543 seats in the Lok Sabha.
Congress confident that exit polls would go wrong. “We are sure that the exit polls will be proved wrong again,” said Meem Afzal, party spokesperson. Man of the moment’ Narendra Modi will watch the results from his residence in Gandhinagar. If the results turnout to be on expected lines, he will first go to party office in Ahmedabad and then proceed to Vadodara for victory celebrations.
The first trends on the way India has voted will emerge by 8:15 am, a definitive indication will emerge by 9:30 am. The nation is waiting with anticipation to know the fate of Narendra Modi as Elections 2014 has been about his attempt to reclaim Delhi for the BJP. While counting of votes will begin only at 8 am, upbeat BJP workers have started to celebrate in anticipation of a victory in Lok Sabha polls 2014. Party cadre in Kanpur from where Murli Manohar Joshi is in the fray has started the day by bursting crackers.
Elections 2014 witnessed the highest ever voting percentage with 66 percent (551 million) the 814 million electorate having voted between April 7 and May 12 to pick 543 Lok Sabha members from the nearly 8,000 candidates in the fray in 28 states and seven union territories. Rs 3,426 crores were spent on the largest-ever electoral exercise in the world conducted by the Election Commission.
Massive preparations have also been made at the party headquarters in Delhi. Sweets and firecracks have been ordered in huge quantities to add punch to the celebrations.
Bureau Report
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