In a historic win the BJP is set to form government on its own by going past 272 majority mark.
BJP’s Prime Ministerial candidate Narendra Modi who has scored a thumping win in both of his lok Sabha seats Vadodara and Varanasi will be heading the next government at the Centre replacing the Congress which has faced its worst ever rout in lok Sabha poll.
According to available trends, the BJP –led National Democratic alliance (NDA) may sail beyond 300 mark.
Modi tweeted by saying “ India has won”.
In a historic low , the Congress is struggling to keep its numbers beyond 65 lok Sabha seats with its unannounced Prime Ministerial candidate Rahul Gandhi in a neck-in-neck contest at Amethi (UP) against BJP’s television actress-turned BJP politician Smiriti Irani.
BJP Chief-media-coordinator Ravishankar Prasad described the poll outcome as “rejection of dynastic rule” of the Congress by the people of the country. Admitting its defeat, Congress said it was "very disappointed" with the poll outcome but hit out at Narendra Modi for pursuing "politics of polarisation".
The BJP is sweeping in several including Gujart, Rajastahn, Madhya Pradesh, Bihar and UP. It has performed very well in Assam where is likely to win a all time 8 seats out of 12. leaving the past behind including the charges of corruption against former KarnatakaChief Minster B S Yeddiyurappa, the BJP is gaining over half of the 28 seats in the state.
According to tends, BP has made a clean sweep of 26 seats in Gujart and that of 25 seats in Rajasthan. A similar winning trend is continuing in Madhya Pradesh.
In the electorally key state of Uttar Pradesh, the BJP is poised to win more than half of the 80 lok Sabha seats. In Bihar too, the party is clearly winning more than 20 seats out of 40 seats in Bihar where opposition JD (U) and RJD is almost decimated .
leading in 18 of the 28 lok Sabha constituencies in Karnataka, the BJP today marched way ahead of the ruling Congress which headed for a setback leading in only eight seats as the counting of votes progressed.
BJP candidate Kirron Kher is leading from Chandigarh seat over Congress rival and four-time MP Pawan Kumar Bansal, as per initial trends. Most of the BJP senior leaders in the fray, barring Arun Jaitley (Amritsar) , were ahead of their immediate rivals when reports last came in.