This is a huge jump from their last performance in 2009 when the party had gathered 18.8% votes with 116 seats
Ducks questions on her ministerial berth, says it is for the PM to decide
CPI gets only one seat in the next parliament as its candidate C N Jayadevan has won the Thrissur constituency
BJP and allies emerged as runner-up
AIADMK gets 44.3 % of votes in Tamil Nadu, emerges as 3rd largest nationally
Deflects questions on Rahul Gandhi's leadership, calls it collective failure
The BJP is set to make impressive gains in the state, leading in two seats - Darjeeling and Asansol, while the Congress is ahead in five constituencies
Narendra Modi's leadership led BJP to an unprecedented victory, he adds
Chirag Paswan also spoke about a likely NDA government in Bihar in the next six months, saying Kumar does not enjoy a majority
Lok Sabha Speaker Meira Kumar was trailing by 50,000 votes in Sasaram in Bihar
The only glimmer of hope was Sitapur seat where party's Kaisar Jahan was leading in initial rounds, but she too could not maintain that lead as the counting progressed
Party gets 265,011 votes so far, or 1.2% of the total votes; NOTA has 1.4% or 305,806 votes
Amid mounting pressure from BJP on Chavan to quit, MPCC spokesperson Sachin Sawant says there is a need to analyse the results
Sayeed was humbled by NCP's P P Mohammed Faisal in a fierce contest in the Union Territory of Lakshadweep
GST, subsidies, foreign investment in defence and insurance among focus areas
Acceding the losing trend, Deora said that we would look into what went wrong
The Narendra Modi factor has not brought in significant gains for the BJP
As per Twitter, Indians in New York celebrated BJP's clean sweep of elections by distributing Samosas
Director Karan Johar called Modi's success the first blockbuster of the year
KCR's son K Taraka Rama Rao has already won from Sircilla Assembly seat in Karimnagar district