The meeting will take place in Parliament's Central Hall on Saturday during which the MPs will formally elect Modi as the leader
SP Muslim candidates, who tasted electoral success, included Mohd Azam Khan (Rampur), S T Hasan (Moradabad) and Shafiqur Rehman Barq (Sambhal)
Only in Dahod and Porbandar parliamentary seats, the margin of victory of the BJP candidates went down when compared to 2014
All of the replacement candidates won by comfortable margins as the calculated risk seemed to have paid off
President of The American India Public Affairs Committee Jagdish Sewhani said that the re-election of the Indian leader with a strong mandate is a reflection of the emergence of 'New India'.
JD(S) had contested seven seats and everyone but Prajwal was swept away by the Modi wave Thursday.
BJP bagged a massive 40.25 per cent in the state of West Bengal winning 18 seats.
The 17th Lok Sabha has to be constituted by June 3 after which the process to form a new house will be initiated
Pragya Singh Thakur, a terror accused, won by over 300,000 votes from Bhopal defeating Congress candidate Digvijay Singh. Azam Khan made sexist remarks against Jaya Prada who was fighting against him.
North West Delhi saw the highest number of votes for NOTA with over 10,000 voters opting for it
Y S Rajasekhara Reddy had elbowed the TDP chief out of power in 2004, Jaganmohan Reddy has achieved the same 15 years later
BJP won more than 300 seats in the latest polls, bettering its performance in 2014. But the victory has come amid agrarian distress, youth unemployment, and anemic growth.
US president Donald Trump, Vice President Mike Pence, Secretary of State Mike Pompeo congratulated Modi, while others remarked with marvel at the scale of the Indian elections
The Prime Minister, on Twitter, credited the party's successes to Advani's hard work over the decades and seeked Joshi's blessings
BJP cadre had set its hopes on the prestigious Thiruvananthapuram seat which it lost to incumbent Congress leader Shashi Tharoor by a margin of almost 1,00,000 votes
MP, Rajasthan and Chhattisgarh voted overwhelmingly for the BJP with Congress' tally in the three states standing at a total of 3 seats
While the DMK enjoyed a 45.1% voteshare in the by-polls, that of AIADMK's stood at 38.2%
The Bhartiya Janta Party repeated its 2014 performance when it also won 26 seats in Gujarat.
Shah, who has debuted in the Lok Sabha, could join the Cabinet Committee on Security of the second Modi government
Modi's thumping win puts his nationalist party on course to increase its majority on a mandate of business-friendly policies