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May 24, 2019 11:50 AM IST | Source: Moneycontrol.com
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Final party position in Jharkhand
Total Lok Sabha seats: 14
BJP 11
Ajsu Party 01
JMM 01
INC 01
UPDATE | The Election Commission of India has declared results of 534 seats. Of which, the BJP has won 300 seats.
UPDATE | Senior Congress leader and former Assembly Speaker V Vaithilingam emerged victorious in the election to lone Lok Sabha seat in Puducherry.
Election 2019 was a fight between two ideologies: RSS leader
The just concluded Lok Sabha election was a fight between two different ideologies - "the Hindu way of life and politicsof exclusion and division" - a senior RSS leader said a day after the BJP swept to power for a second term with an overwhelming majority.
With the poll results,this ideological fight underway since independence has now reached a "decisive stage", RSS sah sarkaryavah (joint general secretary) Manmohan Vaidya said in a statement here.
37 candidates lose deposit in Himachal Lok Sabha polls
As many as 37 candidates, including all the four BSP contestants, lost their security deposit in Himachal Pradesh Lok Sabha polls, a state election officer told news agency PTI.
None of the 37 out of the total 45 candidates for the four Lok Sabha seats in the state could even get the minimum required one-sixth (16.67%) of the total polled valid votes to save their security deposit of Rs 25,000.
Former External Affairs Minister and BJP leader SM Krishna: It's a decisive snub to dynastic politics in Delhi and Karnataka. I think people have seen through the game of dynastic politics. Congress will survive as a small party. In Congress, sycophancy to a dynasty has undone the party. (ANI)
After meeting BJP veteran leader LK Advani, PM Modi arrives at senior party leader Murli Manohar Joshi's residence.
JUST IN | Sources say PM Narendra Modi's swearing-in ceremony may be held on May 30 at 5 pm, CNBC-TV18 has reported.
UPDATE | The RJD, the main opposition party in the Bihar assembly, has been totally decimated in the 2019 Lok Sabha polls and even failed to open its account.
BJP makes it 10/10 in Haryana, Congress routed
The ruling BJP won all the 10 seats in Haryana, smashing what were considered as bastions of prominent political families in the state.
While it was the BJP's best-ever performance in Haryana, carved out as a separate state in 1966, the Congress faced a rout after a gap of 20 years, as per results declared for all ten seats by the Election Commission.
In what came as a twin blow for the Congress was the loss of father-son duo Bhupinder Singh Hooda and Deepender Singh Hooda from Sonipat and Rohtak, respectively.
JUST IN | Congress' Uttar Pradesh unit chief Raj Babbar offers to resign taking moral responsibility of the loss in the state, as the party could win only one seat, i.e. Rae Bareli. (CNN News18)
UPDATE | BJP candidate from Odisha's Puri, Sambit Patra has lost by over 11,000 votes to BJD's Pinaki Misra.
Modi wave takes wind out of 'mahagathbandhan' sail in UP, counting in two seats underway
The BJP and its ally Apna Dal(S) are set to win 64 of Uttar Pradesh's 80 Lok Sabha seats, demolishing the challenge posed by the SP-BSP alliance, which is expected to get 15 seats between them.
The BJP has won 61 seats and its ally two seats in the politically crucial state, which sends the highest number of MPs to the Lower House.
The Samajwadi Party (SP) has won five seats and its alliance partner Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP) nine.
Congress won the lone Raebareli seat of Sonia Gandhi.
The counting of votes is still underway in Uttar Pradesh and the Election Commission has declared results of 78 seats as of 9 am today.
Following is the final party position in Madhya Pradesh:
Total Lok Sabha seats: 29
BJP 28
Congress 1
A total of 45,595 people cast NOTA votes in Delhi this time as against 39,368 in 2014, an increase of 6,227 votes.
By opting for None Of The Above (NOTA), a voter can disapprove of all the candidates in the fray. The option was first made available in the 2013 Assembly elections in Delhi, Chhattisgarh, Mizoram, Rajasthan, and Madhya Pradesh. The 2014 Lok Sabha polls were the first general elections to offer the option.
Smriti Irani tweeted, "It's a new morning for Amethi, a new determination. Thanks, Amethi, my obeisance. You put your trust in development and let the lotus bloom. Thankful to Amethi."
Following is the final party position in Maharashtra:
Total Lok Sabha seats: 48
BJP 23
Shiv Sena 18
NCP 4
Congress 1
AIMIM 1
Independent 1
UPDATE | BJP candidate Sanjeev Kumar Balyan won Muzaffarnagar Lok Sabha seat. He was fielded against Rashtriya Lok Dal (RLD) chief Ajit Singh. (ANI)
BJP's most remarkable victory in Uttar Pradesh has come in Amethi where Union minister Smriti Irani unseated Congress president Rahul Gandhi from his party's bastion.
Congratulating PM Narendra Modi on his re-election, the United States has said that the just concluded elections in India, the largest democratic exercise in human history, is an inspiration for people around the world.
Vice President Mike Pence tweeted, "Congrats to an American ally & friend PM Narendra Modi, on his party’s win in India’s parliamentary election. This was a strong display of the Indian people’s commitment to democracy! We look forward to continuing to work with India for a freer, safer, and more prosperous region."
Secretary of State Mike Pompeo tweeted, "Congratulations to Narendra Modi and the NDA for their victory in India’s election, and to the Indian people for casting their votes in such historic numbers. As the world’s largest exercise in democracy, India’s election is an inspiration around the world."