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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.
IN A departure from the BJP’s last two governments, Union Agriculture Minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan is set to hold one-on-one meetings with state agriculture ministers, beginning with Chhattisgarh and Assam on July 1.
Krishi Bhawan housing five Union ministries, which witnessed several protests by farmers as well as the Opposition parties during the last five years, bears a new look in the aftermath of the just-concluded Lok Sabha elections.
The BJP has ceded some ground to Congress in some of the most backward districts of the country, shows an analysis of the Lok Sabha election results.
Over the past 10 years, the Narendra Modi government has knit a net of welfare schemes that, at their widest, provide a cushion to around 22 crore families. This “labharthi varg” has paid rich dividends for the BJP in successive elections, prompting Opposition parties to promise and implement their own basket of schemes.
Reflecting the BJP’s push to make inroads into the south, the number of Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s trips to the five southern states saw a steady rise in the last two years of his second term leading up to the 2024 Lok Sabha elections, which started on April 19.
Ten regional parties, most of whom were in power in their respective states, received a combined donation of about Rs 900 crore through electoral bonds prior to April 12, 2019, the date after which the details of all poll bonds redeemed by political parties were made available earlier this week.
Of Rs 12,769 crore worth electoral bonds encashed by the political parties in the last five years, ruling BJP bagged almost half, and one-third of this came during the 2019 Lok Sabha elections. In fact, the party has encashed electoral bonds worth Rs.202 crore in January this year, ahead of the crucial 2024 Lok Sabha elections.