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The DMK-led Secular Progressive Alliance’s clean sweep in Tamil Nadu has left principal Opposition party AIADMK grappling with questions about its future, given that it has faced a poll debacle for the second straight parliamentary election, and has provided the BJP with a silver lining despite troubles of its own.
Of the 303 seats the BJP won in 2019, it retained 208 this time, lost 92, and gave three to its allies — Janata Dal (United), Janata Dal (Secular), and Rashtriya Lok Dal — who won a seat each. It won 32 new seats in 2024 pushing its tally to 240.
Behind Kangana Ranaut’s victory over the Congress’s Vikramaditya Singh by 74,755 votes from Mandi Lok Sabha in Himachal Pradesh was a numbers game that the BJP executed with aplomb. In the high-stakes battle, the Bollywood actress’s fate was decided by the Assembly segments in the lower reaches of the mountainous state, which are mostly held by BJP MLAs.
Before Tuesday, the INDIA bloc kept talking about how the 2024 results would prove to be an ‘India Shining’ moment for the BJP, referring to how the Vajpayee government had been taken by surprise by the 2004 numbers after advancing general elections in the anticipation of a win.
When Prime Minister Narendra Modi filed his Lok Sabha nomination in Varanasi, part of his entourage were several politicians of the National Democratic Alliance (NDA). One of them stood out – Pawan Kalyan of the fledgling Jana Sena Party (JSP), which was founded as recently as 2014.
Getting around 45 per cent of the votes counted till noon Tuesday, the Congress in Karnataka looks to be on track to significantly improve their vote share compared to the 2019 Lok Sabha election, in which they registered just 32 per cent.
The DMK is maintaining its streak of electoral victories since 2019 and looks poised for a near-sweep in the Tamil Nadu Lok Sabha polls. With the ruling coalition leading in 38 out of 39 seats, Chief Minister and DMK president M K Stalin’s leadership and his deft handling of alliances, solidifying the state’s largest coalition and keeping it intact since 2019 is being credited with the success.
Behind the remarkable turnaround for the Opposition Samajwadi Party (SP) and Congress in Uttar Pradesh where the INDIA bloc is leading in 45 of the total 80 Lok Sabha seats, some fascinating factors may have given them an upper hand over the BJP.