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The Congress has made major gains in Maharashtra’s reserved seats with a spirited campaign — centered around the political rhetoric that Narendra Modi 3.0 with a 400-plus mandate could change the Constitution and undermine the reservation regime.
While the Uttar Pradesh results shocked the BJP, they also took the INDIA bloc by surprise, which could not have imagined finishing ahead of the BJP in a state that had been swept by the BJP the past two times. Post-Ram Temple consecration, the BJP was seen as invincible. However, in the final count, the Samajwadi Party (SP) on its own finished with 37 constituencies in the state, four seats ahead of the BJP, with the INDIA coalition also getting more than the NDA.
Lok Sabha elections 2024 results sprang a surprise on Tuesday as the Opposition INDIA bloc performed better than expectations and Exit Poll 2024 predictions. As per the Election Commission of India (ECI), the Congress-led INDIA bloc clinched 232 seats in the 543-member Lok Sabha, while the ruling National Democratic Alliance (NDA) won 293 seats. The election results sparked a wave of celebration among the Opposition camp, with leaders like Rahul Gandhi and Mallikarjun Kharge showcasing the victory sign to express confidence.
The issue of reservation and “saving the Constitution” which was one of the core campaign points of the Opposition in the Lok Sabha elections managed to leave a visible impact on the performance of the two national parties, the BJP and the Congress, in 131 seats reserved for Scheduled Castes (84 seats) and Scheduled Tribes (47 seats).
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.
In a major setback for the BJP, Union minister Smriti Irani looked set for a huge loss to the Congress’s K L Sharma, who had pulled ahead by 1.66 lakh votes in Amethi as per leads till 6 pm. In neighbouring Rae Bareli, a Congress party bastion for decades, senior leader Rahul Gandhi is leading by 3.90 lakh votes — a number that surpasses his mother Sonia Gandhi’s previous margins from the seat.
As the Trinamool Congress (TMC) looks set to stamp its dominance in West Bengal politics, leading in 30 of the state’s 42 Lok Sabha constituencies, and the BJP’s tally looks set to reduce, one of the major results is coming from Baharampur where state Congress president Adhir Ranjan Chowdhury is trailing TMC candidate and former cricketer Yusuf Pathan.
Chosen by the Gandhi family to carry forward the baton in Amethi, and contesting his first election, Kishorilal Sharma is leading Union minister Smriti Irani by more than 71,000 votes in Amethi.