While the Lok Sabha has 543 members, counting was held for 542 seats when the BJP’s Surat candidate Mukesh Dalal was elected unchallenged.
Results for 542 of the 543 Lok Sabha seats have been released by the Election Commission of India. The Congress has won 99 seats and the BJP 240.
We’re still awaiting the results for the Maharashtra Beed constituency, where the BJP’s Pankaja Munde is trailing behind NCP (Sharad Pawar) candidate Bajrang Manohar Sonwane.
While the Lok Sabha has 543 members, counting was held for 542 seats when the BJP’s Surat candidate Mukesh Dalal was elected unchallenged.
Prime Minister Narendra Modi is expected to lead the government for a third term in a row, according to the results of the election that were announced early on Wednesday. This is despite the fact that the BJP-led National Democratic Alliance (NDA) suffered crushing losses in three states in the Hindi heartland, and the election was fiercely contested and widely perceived as a referendum on Modi’s popularity.
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 exit polls and the BJP-led NDA had anticipated a landslide victory, but that was not what the results showed.
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.
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Plans for the BJP to celebrate the results of the 2024 Lok Sabha election
It is anticipated that the official swearing-in ceremony and the BJP celebration will take place on the same day at either Bharat Mandapam or Kartavya Path.
According to The Indian Express, the Bharatiya Janata Party is organizing a big political event for this weekend in anticipation of winning the Lok Sabha 2024 for the third time in a row.
The National Democratic Alliance (NDA), led by the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), is expected to win a resounding majority and the majority of Lok Sabha seats in the general elections, according to exit polls.
It is anticipated that the official swearing-in ceremony and the BJP celebration will take place on the same day at either Bharat Mandapam or Kartavya Path.
The event, which has as its theme highlighting India’s cultural legacy, is expected to gather 8,000–10,000 people, including leaders of other governments. It may also include a light and sound performance.
The Indian Express was informed by a top government official that while plans have not yet been finalized, the event may happen on June 9.
A tender for “supplying decorative indoor and ornamental plants for the swearing-in ceremony of the Prime Minister and other ministers at Rashtrapati Bhavan” was released by the President’s Secretariat on May 28. On June 3, the ₹21.97 lakh tender will be opened, providing the contractor just five days to complete the work.
According to The Indian Express, the Rashtrapati Bhavan swearing-in event preparations started last week.
