Bharatiya Janata Party wins 282 seats as the NDA bags 334

1.    Bharatiya Janata Party wins 282 seats as the NDA bags 334

i. The BJP led NDA is set to form the new Government at the Centre with a massive win in the Lok Sabha elections. The saffron party has secured an absolute majority on its own by winning 282 seats.

ii. In the 543-member Lok Sabha, the BJP-led NDA has won 334 seats. The Congress- led UPA alliance has won 60 seats. Others have bagged 149 seats.

iii. While, the BJP has termed the party's victory as people's mandate for a change, the Congress President Sonia Gandhi accepted responsibility for the party's debacle in Lok Sabha elections. Talking to reporters at party headquarters in New Delhi, Mrs Gandhi said Congress respects the verdict of the people with humility. 

iv. She congratulated the next government to be formed by the BJP and hoped that it will not compromise with the unity and integrity of the country. Party Vice President Rahul Gandhi also owned responsibility for the defeat and said there is a need for introspection.

v. BJP President Rajnath Singh told media in New Delhi that all sections of the society cutting across geographical and social boundaries have voted in favour of the party. He said, the party will take support of all sections of the society in the development of the country and rewrite India's success story. Regarding NDA allies, Party President said the BJP would take everybody along to form the new government. Veteran Party leader L.K Advani termed the BJP's performance as a fitting reply to corruption, price rise, bad governance and dynastic politics. 

2.    BJP wins 71 seats in UP. BJP posts its best-ever show in UP ! 

i. In Uttar Pradesh results of all 80 constituencies have been declared. Bharatiya Janata Party has 71 seats.

ii. Ruling Samajwadi Party has won 5 seats and two-seats each has been won by the Congress and the BJP ally Apana Dal.

iii. Bahujan Samaj Party and Ajit Singh led Rashtriya Lok Dal have shown a very dismal performance and not a single seat has gone in the favour of two parties.

iv. BJP nominee General (Retired) VK Singh has lodged a record victory, of highest winning margin. He has defeated actor turn politician and sitting MP of Congress Raj Babbar by a margin of 5 lakhs 67 thousand 260 votes from Ghaziabad seat. BJP senior leader Narendra Modi `s victory margin is the second. He has defeated Aam Aadmi Party candidate Arvind Kejriwal by the margin of 3 lakhs 67 thousand 784 votes in Varanasi.

v. Congress President Sonia Gandhi has also been declared winning with a record margin of 3 lakhs 52 thousand 713 votes. She has defeated BJP candidate Ajay Agrawal in her traditional seat Raebareli. 

vi. BJP`s senior leader Murli Manohar Joshi got elected from Kanpur with a margin of 2 lakhs 22 thousand 946 votes. He defeated Union Coal Minister Sriprakash Jaiswal. BJP has won high profile Faizabad seat by a margin of 2 lakhs 82 thousand 775 votes. Party`s Lallu Singh has defeated SP`s Mitra Sen Yadav. Congress State Unit President and sitting MP Nirmal Khatri came fourth.

vii. Several senior leaders and Union Ministers have lost their elections in the state. Union Minister Salman Khurshid in Farrukhabad, Ajit Singh in Baghpat, Beni Prasad Verma in Gonda, Sriprakash Jaiswal in Kanpur, RPN Singh in Kushinagar, Pradeep Jain Aditya in Jhansi, Jitin Prasad in Dhaurahara, State Assembly Speaker Mata Prasad Pandey in Siddharthnagar and AAP Convener Arvind Kejriwal are among those who lost. 

viii. Several ministers from Akhilesh Yadav government including Paras Nath Yadav in Jaunpur, Kailash Chaurasia in Varanasi, Surendra Patel in Mirzapur, Mukhtar Ansari, sitting MP Dhananjay Singh, DP Yadav and Atiq Ahmad have also lost their electoral battles.

3.    BJP secures 22 seats out of 40 seats in Bihar

i. Results for all the Parliamentary seats in Bihar have been declared. Out of 40, the BJP has wrested 22 seats. The Lok Janshakti Party headed by Ram Vilas Paswan and an ally of the NDA has won 6 seats.

ii. The RJD got 4 seats while Rashtriya Lok Samta Party secured 3. The Congress and Janata Dal (United) won two seats each. The Nationalist Congress Party has won one seat.