The Election Commission of India has declared results for 542 out of 543 Lok Sabha seats. As to an NDTV report, the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) has secured 240 seats while the Congress has secured 99.
The outcome of the Maharashtra Beed constituency, in which Bajrang Manohar Sonwane, the Nationalist Congress Party’s [Sharad Pawar] nominee, is leading the BJP’s Pankaja Munde, is still pending.
The article stated that despite the Lok Sabha having 543 members, 542 seats were counted after BJP’s candidate from Surat, Mukesh Dalal, won the seat without any opposition.
Prime Minister Narendra Modi is anticipated to head the government for a record-breaking third term, based on the results that were announced early today. This is true even though the election was hotly contested and largely seen as a referendum on Modi’s popularity, and the BJP-led National Democratic Alliance (NDA) suffered crushing losses in three states in the Hindi heartland.
A far cry from the 303 and 282 seats it had won in 2019 and 2014, respectively, to have a majority on its own, the BJP, whose candidates ran on the platform of Modi, won 240 seats, falling short of the 272 majority mark and requiring the support of allies in the party-led NDA for government formation.
The NDA passed the halfway point with the help of important allies N Chandrababu Naidu’s Telugu Desam Party (TDP) and Nitish Kumar’s JD(U), which took home 16 and 12 seats in Andhra Pradesh and Bihar, respectively, as well as other alliance members.
The opposition INDIA bloc’s Congress gained 99 seats as opposed to 52 in 2019, reducing the BJP’s majority in Rajasthan and Haryana.
With 37 seats, the Samajwadi Party maintained the confidence of the INDIA bloc in Uttar Pradesh, while the Trinamool Congress (TMC), another important opposition party member, increased their 2019 tally of 22 seats to 29 in West Bengal. Twelve seats were gained by the BJP, which had won eighteen in the previous Lok Sabha elections.
The greatest democratic exercise in history was scheduled to take place in seven parts from April 19 to June 1 and involved the counting of over 640 million votes.
