Lok Sabha elections 2024: Congress' Geniben Thakor from Banaskantha Lok Sabha constituency defeated her BJP counterpart Rekha Chaudhary by 30,000 votes
Lok Sabha Elections 2024 results: Counting for the General Elections began at 8 am on Tuesday. The NDA was leading on 296 seats, while the INDIA bloc was ahead on 23o seats at 4 pm
Lok Sabha elections 2024: Congress general secretary Jairam Ramesh questions Election Commission on delays in vote counting
Till 3 pm on June 4, the Bharatiya Janata Party was leading in 240 seats, followed by the Indian National Congress on 99 seats and the Samajwadi Party on 35 seats
Lok Sabha elections 2024: Jairam Ramesh said that the INDIA bloc's better-than-expected performance was a sign that it was time for Prime Minister Narendra Modi to resign from his post
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Karnataka Lok Sabha election result 2024: In the high-stakes battle for Karnataka, the BJP-led NDA secures 19 seats
The BJP-led NDA was comfortably leading in Madhya Pradesh, Rajasthan, Chhattisgarh, and Bihar till 12 noon
According to Election Commission rules, exit poll data will start coming only after 6:30 pm onwards
At 11 am, trends on TV channels showed the BJP-led NDA leading on 290 seats, while the Congress-led INDIA bloc was leading on 232 seats
Lok Sabha elections 2024: Thiruvananthapuram has been a stronghold of the Congress and Communist Party of India (CPI)
This came after investors resorted to profit booking while tracking early trends indicating a closer contest between the BJP-led NDA and INC-led INDIA Alliance, diverging from exit poll predictions
While PM Narendra Modi was leading in Varanasi by a margin of 13,000 votes, Smriti Irani in Amethi and Dinesh Pratap Singh were trailing behind Congress' Kishori Lal Sharma and Rahul Gandhi
Twelve prominent exit polls had predicted a clean sweep for the BJP, with a few predicting 400 seats forNDA, while most predicted over 350 seats. Trends at 9:40 am diverged from these predictions
Lok Sabha 2024 results: Counting for the General Elections began at 8 am. , Early trends suggested a big NDA victory as the BJP-led alliance crossed the halfway mark, while the INDIA bloc trailed
Congress president Mallikarjun Kharge on Monday wrote an open letter to the country's bureaucracy on the eve of counting of votes for the Lok Sabha elections, urging officers to adhere to the Constitution and serve the nation without fear, favour and ill-will against anybody. "Do not get intimidated by anyone. Do not bow down to any Unconstitutional means. Do not be afraid of anyone and discharge your duties, based on merit, on this counting day," he wrote. "We owe it to future generations, a vibrant Democracy and a long-lasting Constitution, as penned by the makers of modern India," he said. The counting of votes polled in the Lok Sabha polls will be held om Tuesday. "In this hope that India remains truly Democratic in nature, I extend good wishes to each one of you, and expect that our eternal ideals of the Constitution remain untarnished," the Congress chief said. In his appeal to all civil servants and officers, he said he is writing in his capacity of the Leader of the Opposi
Congress president Mallikarjun Kharge and former AICC chief Rahul Gandhi held a meeting on Sunday with the party's Lok Sabha candidates, legislative party leaders and state unit chiefs via video conferencing, and urged them to be alert and put in place measures to check any attempts of rigging on poll counting day, sources said. Kharge, Gandhi, party general secretaries Jairam Ramesh and K C Venugopal, along with other senior leaders, interacted with the party's Lok Sabha candidates and reviewed the preparations for the counting day on June 4. The meeting comes a day after exit polls predicted that Prime Minister Narendra Modi will retain power for a third straight term, with the BJP-led NDA expected to win a big majority in the Lok Sabha polls. Ramesh has said that the exit polls that came out Saturday evening are "completely bogus" and have been "orchestrated and masterminded by the man whose exit is inevitable and guaranteed on June 4". "These are all part of the psychological .
Terming the exit polls "bogus", the Congress on Sunday said they were a "deliberate attempt" to justify rigging of the elections and part of "psychological games" being played by Prime Minister Narendra Modi to lower the morale of the INDIA bloc workers. Congress general secretary Jairam Ramesh also hit out at Prime Minister Modi for holding several meetings, including a long brainstorming session to review the 100-day agenda of the "new government", saying these were "pressure tactics" to send out a signal to the bureaucracy and the administrative structure that he is coming back. "These are mind games -- 'I am coming back, I am going to be the prime minister again'. He is sending a signal to the bureaucracy, the administrative structure of the country and we hope that the civil servants who have been entrusted with the responsibility of ensuing a fair counting of votes will not be intimidated and not be frightened by these pressure tactics," Ramesh told PTI at the AICC headquarters
Telangana Chief Minister A Revanth Reddy has expressed confidence that the Congress will win at least 10 of the 17 Lok Sabha seats in the state and that the INDIA bloc would form a govt at centre