Lok Sabha election result highlights: Congress faces crisis in Karnataka, resignations in other states

* Rumblings in Karnataka
Former Karnataka CM and Congress leader Siddaramaiah on Friday said that there was no threat to the government, referring to the JD(S)-Congress alliance in Karnataka Assembly.
BJP's gains in Karnataka has put the JD(S)-Congress state government on edge. Karnataka deputy CM and Congress leader G. Parameshwara have held a meetings with former CM Siddaramaiah, KPCC chief Dinesh Gundu Rao, MB Patil and other leaders.
BJP has won 25 of the 28 Lok Sabha seats and is the largest party in the Karnataka assembly with 105 seats, having won one of the bypolls on Thursday. The state government is on edge as the BJP now needs a mere eight MLAs to form a government for a simple majority of 113 in a 224-member House.
* Yogendra Mishra, president of district Congress committee in Amethi and Niranjan Patnaik, president, Odisha pradesh Congress committee resigns from the post taking responsibility for respective defeat.
*Narendra Modi-led National Democratic Alliance won 349 seats in 2019 Lok Sabha election with Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) winning 303 seats. In 2014, BJP had won 282 seats which means that the party gained 21 seats in this General election.
* PM seeks blessings of veterans
Prime Minister Narendra Modi and BJP president Amit Shah on Friday visited veteran leaders LK Advani and Murli Manohar Joshi to seek their blessings after the BJP-led NDA won a second term with a resounding majority.
Referring to Advani, PM Modi said that BJP's successes today are "possible because greats like him spent decades building the party". After meeting Joshi, the PM said that the veteran leader's contribution towards improving Indian education has been remarkable.
* Sensex-surge
Equity benchmark indices opened higher on Friday, a day after a decisive win of PM Modi. At 10:00 am, the BSE S&P Sensex was up 75 points at 38,887 while the Nifty 50 gained 16 points to 11,673. At the National Stock Exchange (NSE), all sectoral indices except IT were in the positive zone.
* Ministry-making
PM Modi will hold talks on Friday to form a new cabinet to tackle economic challenges facing his second term. Later on Friday Modi will meet with his ministers to discuss forming a new cabinet, sources said. He has not yet set an inauguration date for the administration, but BJP officials said he was expected to move quickly to put together a new cabinet.
While there have been no formal consultations yet on ministry-making, party sources reckon there is a strong possibility of party president Amit Shah taking up one of the crucial portfolios. Shah won by a margin of 5.5 Lakh votes from Gandhinagar, Gujarat.
Allies Shiv Sena, JD(U), LJP, Akali Dal and Apna Dal are sure to join in. However, with BJP having a majority of its own, it will be under no compulsion to mollycoddle the partners. As in PM Modi's first term, BJP is likely to retain important portfolios.
* Seven former Congress Chief Ministers lose polls
Three-time Delhi Chief Minister Sheila Dikshit lost from Delhi North East, former Uttarakhand Chief Minister Harish Rawat lost from Nainital-Udhamsingh Nagar, former Haryana Chief Minister Bhupinder Singh Hooda was defeated from Sonipat, former Madhya Pradesh Chief Minister Digvijaya Singh lost from Bhopal, former Maharashtra Chief Minister Sushil Kumar Shinde from Solapur, former Meghalaya Chief Minister Mukul Sangma from Tura and former Karnataka Chief Minister Veerappa Moily lost from Chikkballapur.
* Other states
Tamil Nadu: Telugu Desam Party (TDP), led by N Chandrababu Naidu, received a massive drubbing at the hands of Jagan Mohan Reddy’s YSRCP. In huge gains, YSRCP increased its tally from eight seats in 2014 to 22 this time. The TDP’s numbers, on the other hand, were reduced from 15 to merely three. There are 25 Lok Sabha seats in the state.
In Arunachal Pradesh (2), Rajasthan(25), Delhi (7), Gujarat (26), Haryana (10), Himachal Pradesh (4) and Uttarakhand (5) BJP won on all Lok Sabha seats.
The Hindi heartland has been the core base of BJP but in this Lok Sabha election, two major gains for BJP has been Odisha and West Bengal where regional parties have ruled supreme. In Odisha, BJP managed to win eight seats while 12 went to the strongest regional outfit Naveen Patnaik-led Biju Janata Dal.
In West Bengal, BJP won 18 seats which is a massive gain compared to two seats it won in 2014 Lok Sabha election. In Bengal, Trinamool Congress, the strongest regional outfit, won on 21 seats while Congress won on three.
BJP's allies in Assam, Asom Gana Parishad (AGP) and Bodoland People's Front (BPF) failed to win a single seat in the Lok Sabha election for the second time in a row. AGP had contested in Kaliabor, Barpeta and Dhubri seats and BPF contested Kokrajhar. While Congress won Kaliabor and Barpeta, AIUDF retained Dhubri and Independent Naba Sarania held on to Kokrajhar. Over all, on Assam's 14 Lok Sabha seats, BJP won on nine, UPA won three, AIUDF won one and one seat went to Independent.