New Delhi June 4 :
As counting continues for the 2024 Lok Sabha elections and leads favouring the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP)-led NDA over the opposition alliance – INDIA, Prime Minister Narendra Modi expressed gratitude to all workers of the party as the NDA alliance, led by the BJP, is poised to return to power at the Centre.
In a post on X, PM Modi said, “The people of the country have expressed their trust in the NDA for the third consecutive time. This is an unprecedented moment in the history of India. I thank my family for their love and blessings. I assure the countrymen that to fulfil their aspirations, we will move forward with new energy, new enthusiasm, and new resolves.” “I express my heartfelt gratitude and congratulations to all the workers for the dedication and tireless hard work they have done,” the Prime Minister added.
PM Modi secured victory over Congress candidate Ajay Rai by a margin of 1,52,513 votes in Uttar Pradesh’s Varanasi seat.
Prime Minister Modi received 6,12,970 votes while Ajay Rai received 4,60,457 votes. Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP) candidate Ather Jamal Lari was in the third position with 33,766 votes.
According to ECI data, the BJP has won 110 seats while the Congress has won 46 seats.
Meanwhile, the National Democratic Alliance (NDA) led by the BJP is ahead in 293 seats, while the INDIA bloc is leading in 232 seats, indicating significant gains for the latter, according to the latest trends.
The Congress, which secured only 52 seats in the 2019 Lok Sabha polls, is currently leading in 99 seats, while the BJP is ahead in 240 seats.
The BJP had won a majority on its own in the 2014 and 2019 Lok Sabha polls, securing 282 seats in 2014 and
“People have trusted
improving its tally to 303 seats in the 2019 elections.
Setting a target of winning 370 seats in the 2024 general elections, the BJP-led NDA, under the leadership of Prime Minister Narendra Modi, contested the Lok Sabha elections for a third consecutive term in office. The polls were held in seven phases from April 19 to June 1.
Prime Minister Narendra Modi today thanked the people of India for giving the National Democratic Alliance (NDA) a third consecutive win.
“People have placed their faith in NDA, for a third consecutive time! This is a historical feat in India’s history,” PM Modi said in a post on X.
Trends show the NDA crossed the halfway mark and won 290 seats. The Opposition bloc INDIA also made a comeback of sorts, winning 234 seats in the Lok Sabha – a huge improvement since 2019.
“I bow to the Janata Janardan for this affection and assure them that we will continue the good work done in the last decade to keep fulfilling the aspirations of people,” said PM Modi, who won from Varanasi seat by a margin of 1.5 lakh votes.
“I also salute all our Karyakartas for their hard work. Words will never do justice to their exceptional efforts,” PM Modi said.
PM Modi’s winning margin from Varanasi this time, however, is much less than the over 4-lakh-vote margin he got in the 2019 election.
Political analysts found Uttar Pradesh to be the biggest surprise of the day, with the BJP and Samajwadi Party (SP) neck and neck in what was seen to be an easy contest for the BJP.
Among the biggest talking points this election was the construction of the Ram temple in Ayodhya, a poll promise of the BJP since the 1980s. The party’s supporters had been sure it would be a one of the decisive factors in the Lok Sabha elections.
But the SP is leading in Faizabad, which comprises the Ayodhya assembly seat. Here, the SP’s Awadhesh Prasad is leading by over 33,000 votes to his nearest rival from the BJP Lallu Singh. Exit polls had forecast the BJP to win a bulk of the seats in Uttar Pradesh, which sends 80 MPs to the Lok Sabha – the highest in the country.
Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Tuesday won the Varanasi Lok Sabha seat for the third time in a row after defeating his nearest rival Ajay Rai of Congress by a margin of more than 1.52 lakh votes.
According to the data of the Election Commission while Modi received 6,12,970 votes, about 4,60,457 votes were polled in favour of Congress nominee Ajay Rai. Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP) candidate Ather Jamal Lari was placed in third place with only 33,766 votes.
This is for the third time the Prime Minister had won the seat since 2014, when he contested for the first time.
However, this time the margin of votes has reduced as compared to the 2019 Lok Sabha election when he won by more than 4.79 lakh votes.
Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Tuesday said people have shown full confidence in the BJP and the NDA and the Lok Sabha elections results were a victory of the people, democracy and faith in the country’s Constitution.
“After 1962, for the first time a government has won the mandate for a third consecutive term,” Modi said addressing a gathering at the BJP headquarters.
Modi, who started his victory speech with ‘Jai Jagannath’, also thanked the people of Odisha for giving a clear mandate to the BJP to form its government for the first time in the state.
