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Noida: BJP's Mahesh Sharma leading by over 2 lakh votes

Union minister and BJP leader Mahesh Sharma is leading by a margin of over two lakh votes from the Gautam Budhh Nagar seat after 28 rounds of counting for the Lok Sabha polls, the district election office said. By 8.30 pm, Sharma had 6.45 lakh votes across the five assembly segments of Noida, Jewar, Dadri, Sikandrabad and Khurja that constitute the Gautam Buddh Nagar parliamentary seat, it said. Bahujan Samaj Party's Satveer Nagar, whose candidature is also backed by the Samajwadi Party and the Rashtriya Lok Dal, is running second with 4.26 lakh votes. Congress' Arvind Kumar Singh is trailing with 32,802 votes, according to the district election office. So far, 6,748 NOTA (None of the Above) votes have been counted, more than what any of the remaining 10 candidates, including Independents, have polled, official data showed. A total of 11.27 lakh votes were counted by the end of the 24th round at around 8 pm, the office said. The counting is underway at Phool Mandi in Noida.

Delkar defeats BJP MP Natubhai Patel in Dadra and Nagar Haveli

Former Congress MP and independent candidate Mohan Delkar has won from Dadra and Nagar Haveli, a Union Territory, defeating sitting BJP MP Natubhai Patel by a thin margin of 9,001 votes. Natubhai Patel had twice defeated Delkar, in 2009 and 2014, when the latter had contested on the Congress ticket. In 2019, Delkar distanced himself from the Congress ahead of the general election. He polled 90,421 votes, against Patel's 81,420 votes. Congress candidate Prabhu Tokiya came a distant third, getting only 8,608 votes. Delkar, a tribal leader, has represented the Dadra and Nagar Haveli seat six times in the past. The constituency is reserved for the Scheduled Tribes.

Chiefs of Grand Alliance partners in Bihar defeated

There was such a Modi wave in Bihar this time that the chiefs of the Rashtriya Lok Samta Party (RLSP), Hindustani Awam Morcha (HAM) and VIP - the three allies of the RJD-led Grand Alliance in Bihar - have been defeated in Lok Sabha polls.

Rao Inderjeet Singh wins Gurugram seat

Exuberant over his thumping victory, BJP's Gurugram candidate Rao Inderjeet Singh said it is a historic parliamentary election wherein people of the country kept faith with him and voted for Narendra Modi to make him Prime Minister again.

Chastened Tejashwi commends RJD workers, vows to make a

Chastened by the partys worst-ever drubbing since its formation about three decades ago, RJD leader Tejashwi Yadav on Thursday thanked his workers and allies in the Mahagathbandhan for putting up a brave fight. He vowed to make a comeback while remaining steadfast in the principles laid down by Gandhi, Lohia, Jayprakash Narayan and Karpoori Thakur. The party, formed by Yadavs father Lalu Prasad in 1997. which ruled for eight subsequent years and currently has the largest number of legislators in the state assembly, is set to draw a blank as none of its 19 candidates appears likely to achieve victory. Heartiest congratulations to Narendra Modi with due respects to the popular mandate. Hope the Prime Minister will pay adequate attention to jobs, agriculture and economy in his fresh tenure and live up to the expectations of the people, Yadav who has taken over as the partys de facto leader in the absence of his father, said in a statement. I also commend my party workers ..

BJD candidate registers first victory in Odisha assembly polls

The first victory in the Odisha assembly election was secured by the BJD with its candidate Amar Prasad Satpathy winning from the Barchana seat. BJD candidate Mukesh Kumar Pal also won from the Pallahara assembly constituency by defeating BJP nominee Ashok Mohanty by a margin of 6,214 votes. The ruling party was also leading in 113 other constituencies. Satpathy, the government's chief whip and a former state minister, defeated his nearest BJP contestant Amar Kumar Nayak by a slender margin of 1,485 votes in his home turf, Election Commission sources said. While Satpathy polled 64,084 votes to retain his seat, Nayak bagged 62,599 and Congress candidate Ajay Kumar Samal got 9,322 votes. BJP candidates were leading in 22 seats, while the Congress was ahead in eight of the 146 assembly constituencies that went to polls. A CPI(M) candidate was leading in Bonai and an Independent was ahead in Rayagada. Polling in the Patkura assembly segment was postponed twice following the .

Record victory for Modi's ministers; Puri and Alphons go down

Riding the Modi wave, a record number of Union ministers marched to Lok Sabha, although former bureaucrats and senior cabinet ministers Hardeep Puri and KJ Alphons failed to make it. Textile Minister Smriti Irani emerged as a giant-killer against Congress president Rahul Gandhi who conceded defeat from Amethi in one of the most keenly watched contests in the country. The official announcement on most of the seats was awaited as matching of electronic voting machine (EVM) counts with voter verifiable audit trail(VVPAT) slips was in progress. Prime Minister Narendra Modi retained Varanasi by over 4.79 lakh votes. He increased his victory margin as compared to 2014 by over one lakh votes, trouncing Samajwadi Party's Shalini Yadav. Giriraj Singh, who was up against Kanhaiya Kumar, former JNU president and CPI(ML) candidate, in Begusarai, was leading by 4.22 lakh votes. Radha Mohan Singh fielded from Purvi Champaran was ahead of his rival Aakash SIngh by a margin of nearly two lakh votes. .

BJP sees massive voteshare surge of 10 pc in Delhi

Confident of victory on all seven seats in Delhi with record margins, the BJP saw a massive surge of 10 per cent in its voteshare in this general election when compared to 2014 polls. The party's voteshare so far is at 56.6 per cent as it continued to dominate the trends on all seats. It had a voteshare of 46.40 per cent in 2014, when the party had won all seven seats in the national capital. The increase in BJP's voteshare augurs well for the party at a time when assembly elections are round the corner in Delhi. Its voteshare has crossed the 54-per cent mark achieved by the Aam Aadmi Party in 2015 assembly polls when AAP had swept 67 out of the total 70 seats in Delhi. BJP had recorded a voteshare of 32.3 per cent in 2015 assembly elections. AAP's voteshare of 32.90 per cent in 2014 Lok Sabha polls has been reduced to 18.1 per cent this time. However, counting is underway for all seven seats in Delhi. Sure of emerging victorious on all the seven seats with five of its candidates ...

Amit Shah hails BJP's win as historic

BJP president Amit Shah on Thursday hailed as "historic" his party's thumping victory in the Lok Sabha polls, outlining that it was after 50 years that a Prime Minister is returning to power for a second consecutive term with a majority."This is a historic victory. After 50 years someone has won an absolute majority for the second time in a row", Shah said, addressing BJP workers at the party headquarters here.Attacking Congress, he said, "There are 17 regions including Andhra Pradesh, Delhi, Daman Diu, Uttarakhand among others where Congress has got zero seats. For 50 years Congress and other parties were moving forward with a vote bank of dynasty and appeasement but today's mandate will finish such politics for forever".Shah also tore into the opposition parties and took a jibe at N Chandrababu Naidu whose TDP lost the Assembly polls in Andhra Pradesh."In Uttar Pradesh, we are winning 60 seats after defeating SP-BSP alliance. This thumping majority says that in coming times, ...

Will not work with bad intentions, will take everyone along: Modi

Accepting the resounding poll victory, Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Thursday promised that he will not work with "bad intentions" and that he would like to move ahead by taking everyone along, leaving behind the bitterness witnessed during the Lok Sabha campaign.

JD(U) wins Bhagalpur, Gopalganj (SC); LJP retains Khagaria

Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumars JD (U) wrested Bhagalpur seat from arch rival Lalu Prasads RJD with Ajay Mandal defeating sitting MP Shailesh Kumar alias Bulo Mandal by a thumping margin of 2.66 lakh votes. Bulo Mandal had won the seat five years ago by defeating sitting BJP MP Syed Shahnawaz Hussain. JD(U)s Alok Kumar Suman bagged the reserved Gopalganj seat defeating Surendra Ram of the RJD. The seat was held by BJPs Janak Ram who did not enter the fray this time in favor of the alliance partner. Sitting LJP MP Mehboob Ali Kaiser retained his seat defeating Mukesh Sahni, founding president of Vikassheel Insaan Party which was expected to galvanize Nishad voters for the Mahagathbandhan. Sahni lost to Kaiser, a former president of the state unit of the Congress, by a comprehensive margin of 2.45 lakh votes.

BJP's P P Chaudhary retains Pali seat

BJP candidate and Union Minister P P Chaudhary retained his Pali parliamentary seat Thrusday, defeating Congress candidate Badriram Jakhar by a huge margin of 4,81,597 votes. Chaudhary polled 9,00,149 votes against Jhakar's 4,18,552. Chaudhary served as the Union minister of State for Law and Justice and Ministry of Corporate Affairs in Prime Minister Narendra Modi's cabinet. He is among the four Union ministers from the state who managed to retain their seats. In the 2014 Lok Sabha elections, Choudhary had defeated the Congress candidate by a margin of 3,99,039 votes.

Trinamool's Dev defeats BJP's Bharati Ghosh in Ghatal

Bengali superstar and Trinamool Congress candidate Deepak Adhikari (Dev) won West Bengal's Ghatal Lok Sabha seat, defeating his BJP rival and former IPS officer Bharati Ghosh.

We will introspect: MP CM Kamal Nath after Congress defeat

Madhya Pradesh Chief Minister Kamal Nath on Thursday accepted the results of the Lok Sabha election in which his Congress party suffered an emphatic defeat, saying the party could not convey its agenda to the people.

Union Minister Rao Inderjit Singh wins from Gurgaon, Sunita Duggal from Sirsa

Union Minister and sitting MP Rao Inderjit Singh Thursday won from the Gurgaon parliamentary constituency defeating his nearest Congress rival Ajay Singh Yadav, a former six-time MLA from Rewari, by a margin of 3,86,256 votes. BJP candidate Sunita Duggal won from the Sirsa reserved constituency. The bureaucrat-turned-politician defeated state Congress chief Ashok Tanwar by a margin of 3,09,918 votes. Duggal was the only woman candidate fielded by the BJP from Haryana, which has 10 Lok Sabha seats.

BJP's Subhash Baheria wins Bhilwara seat by huge margin of over 6 lakh votes

BJP's Subhash Chandra Baheria won the Bhilwara Lok Sabha seat in Rajasthan with a huge margin of 6,12,000 votes. It was recorded to be the highest winning margin in the state. Baheria emerged victorious after defeating Congress' Rampal Sharma. In 2014, he had won the seat by 2,46,264 votes. He is not the only one who has won with a whopping victory margin, but there are several other candidates who have also won with a high margin riding on 'Modi wave'. BJP's sitting MP and Chittorgarh candidate C P Joshi and the party's candidate from Rajasamand seat Diya Kumari won by over five lakh votes each. Bhagirath Chaudhary from Ajmer, Dushyant Singh from Jhalawar-Baran, Arjunram Meena from Udaipur won the election by over four lakh votes each. Kailash Chaudhary from Barmer, Ranjita Koli from Bharatpur, Rahul Kaswan from Churu, Baba Balaknath from Alwar and Narendra Khinchar from Jhunjunu emerged victorious by over three lakh votes each, besides several other candidates winning by one to two .

Thai court blocks anti-junta politician from joining House

A Thai court on Thursday blocked the leader of a new anti-junta political party from taking his seat in Parliament while it determines whether he violated election rules. The ruling is likely to increase political tensions in Thailand, where the military has seized power from elected governments twice in the past 13 years and courts regularly issue rulings that critics call biased. The Constitutional Court accepted a case against Future Forward Party leader Thanathorn Juangroongruangkit, who is accused of breaking election law by holding shares in a media company. The court barred him from taking his seat in the meantime. The court action came after the state Election Commission forwarded its recommendation to prosecute Thanathorn, asserting there was credible evidence against him. Thanathorn has said he is not guilty of breaching the shareholding rule because the shares he held were transferred before he contested the election. However, the court said it was suspending him because he

Kumaraswamy's son loses in Mandya

In a huge embarassment to Karnataka Chief Minister H D Kumaraswamy, his son Nikhil was defeated by multi-lingual actress and independent candidateSumalatha Ambareesh by 1,25,876 votes in Mandya Lok Sabha constituency, that saw a bitterly contested campaign. While Sumalatha got 7,03,660 votes, Nikhil secured 5,77,784 votes, poll officials said here Thursday. Mandya witnessed a voter turnout of 80.23 per cent, the highest in Karnataka. The Mandya election had catapulted it to the national limelight, with the contest projected as a cliffhanger between Nikhil, who was the candidate of Congress-JD(S) combine, and Sumalatha Ambareesh, who is backed by the BJP. While Nikhil (31) is the third generation political entrant from former Prime Minister H D Deve Gowda's family, Sumalatha (55) is the widow of popular actor-turned politician M H Ambareesh. Sumalatha had initially sought a ticket from Congress, the party from which her late husband had represented Mandya in the past, but

BJP retains Secunderabad

BJP Thursday retained Secunderabad Lok Sabha constituency, the lone seat the party won in Telangana in the 2014 elections. Senior BJP leader G Kishan Reddy, also a former state party president, defeated Telangana Rashtra Samithi (TRS) leader and minister T Srinivas Yadav's son T Sai Kiran by a margin of over 62,000 votes, the Election Commission said. The BJP had dropped former union minister and sitting MP Bandaru Dattatreya, replacing him with Reddy. Reddy, a three-time MLA, lost from Amberpet seat in the December 2018 Assembly elections. In 2014, Dattatreya won with a margin of 2,54,735 votes against Congress leader M Anjan Kumar Yadav, who had bagged the seat in 2009 defeating the former.

Decisive mandate will further strengthen national interest: NSA Ajit Doval

Hailing Prime Minister Narendra Modi led BJP's victory in the Lok Sabha elections, National Security Advisor (NSA) Ajit Doval on Thursday said that 'decisive mandate' will further strengthen national interest and help deal with challenges more firmly."A decisive mandate for Prime Minister Narendra Modi will further strengthen national interest and help the country to deal with challenges more firmly," said Ajit Doval.Riding on muscular nationalism and a strident anti-Congress plank spearheaded by Prime Minister Modi, the BJP on Thursday got an overwhelming majority in the Lok Sabha, crossing on its own the 300-mark.