Results 2014: Modi tsunami creates history, Congress crushed

New Delhi Narendra Modi created history on his way to becoming Indias 14th prime minister as he led the BJP to a spectacular victory in a Lok Sabha battle that crushed the Congress and others ranged against him and gave for the first time in 30 years any party a majority in parliament on its ownLive Election CoverageFormer Maharashtra CM Ashok Chavan wins Nanded seat against BJP rival D B PatilShiv Senas Kripal Tumane defeats sitting Congress MP and AICC general secretary Mukul Wasnik in RamtekSitting Shiv Sena MP Bhavana Gawali retains YavatmalWashin seat by defeating her Congress rival and Social Justice Minister Shivajirao MogheNitin Gadkari beats wins Nagpur seat by defeatingsitting Congress MP Vilas MuttemwarTelecom scam tainted A Raja of the DMK partydefeated in Nilgiris Tamil NaduNC leader Farooq Abdullah loses to Tariq Hameed Karra of PDP by over 30000 votes in Srinagar JampKNetaji Subhash Chandra Boses grandnephew and TMC candidate Sugata Bose wins from Jadavpur Lok Sabha seat West BengalMehbooba Mufti PDP president wins Anantnag Lok Sabha seatCongresss Sachin Pilot loses to Sanwarlal Jat by 171983 votes in Ajmer RajasthanCongresss Shashi Tharoor wins the Thiravananthapuram Lok Sabha seatNarendra Modi wins Vadodara seat by over 570000 votesCongress leader and Union Minister Kamal Nath wins from Chhindwara constituency in Madhya Pradesh Chhagan Bhujbal of NCP loses to Hemant Godse of Shiv Sena in Nashik by 185 lakh votesBJP leader Arun Jaitely loses in Amritsar Congress leader Salman Khurshid humbled in FarrukhabadNarendra Modi wins Vadodara seat by record margin of 570128 votesBJPs Narendra Modi defeats Arvind Kejriwal of the Aam Aadmi Party in VaranasiUnion Home Minister Sushilkumar Shinde loses to BJPs Sharad Bandsode in SolapurLK Advani beats Congress Kirit Patel in GandhinagarNandan Nilekani concedes defeat to his formidable rival BJPs Ananth Kumar Senior BJP leader Arun Jaitley loses to former Punjab Chief Minister Amarinder Singh in the Amritsar Lok Sabha constituencyVarun Gandhi wins from SultanpurBJP candidate and former Mumbai Police commissioner Satyapal Singh wins from BagpatUP Narendra Modi Rahul Gandhi Sonia Gandhi win Ajit Singh Arvind Kejriwal Mulayam Singh loseSeven UPA ministers trailing in UPFilmstar and BJP candidate from Ahmedabad East Paresh Rawal ahead over his Congress rival Himmat Singh PatelBJPs VK Singhleads in GhaziabadBJP leading in 257 seats in New DelhiVinod Khanna leads over Punjab PCC chiefBJP candidate Kirron Kher win from ChandigarhSushma Swaraj Jyotiraditya Scindiawin in MP LS pollsCongress Ghulam Nabi Azad leading in Jammu and KashmirNaveen Patnaik leads in Hinjili OdishaCongress NPF lead in 2 seats in ManipurBJP leading in 20 seats followed by Samajwadi Party with five seats in UPBJP ahead in 22 Lok Sabha seats in RajasthanBJP leads in 3 AAP in 1 in DelhiBJP forges ahead in 8 of 14 LS seats in AssamAnil Shirole of BJP wins from Pune constituencyTelangana TRS leads in 19 Assembly seatsAPP leads in 4 seats in Punjab SADBJP in 5 seatsBJP leads in 9 of the 14 seats in JharkhandBJP leads in 17 Congress in 7 JDS 1 in KarnatakaBJD ahead in 13 LS seats in OdishaRabri Meira trail Shatrughan Misa Bharti ahead in BiharCongress wins 13 assembly seats leading in 11 in ArunachalBabul Supriyo of BJP is leading by over 53000 votes over Dola Sen of TMC in AsansolNCPs Supriya Sule trailing in BaramatiCPIMs P Karunakaran retains Kasargode defeating T Siddique of CongressUnion Minister K V Thomas of Congress retains Ernakulam by defeating LDFs Christy Fernandes by over 80000 votesP A Sangma amp Vincent Pala leading in Meghalaya LS seats DMK candidate t R Baalu Thanjavur trailing against their AIADMK rivals C Gopalakrishnan and K ParasuramanBJP leads on 9 seats in ChhhattisgarhSikkim Chief Minister Pawan Kumar Chamling wins by 1084 votes from NamchiSinghithang Assembly seatEven political pundits gasped at the sheer scale of the Bharatiya Janata Partys sweep that election officials said was poised to give it a comfortable majority in the 545member Lok Sabha even without the aid of its old and new alliesThe Congress Indias oldest party which had ruled the country for a decade since 2004 faced its worst humiliation It had won three seats and was leading only in 39 more its worst tally in the Lok Sabha where it had never fallen to two digits The Congress won 206 seats in 2009If it gets less than ten percent of the total number of Lok Sabha seats its president may not be recognised as the Leader of Opposition a cabinet rankThe Congress did not win a single seat in seven states and it was unlikely to win more than 10 seats in any stateA chastened Congress accepted defeat Outgoing Prime Minister Manmohan Singh congratulated Modi who is still the Gujarat chief minister Congress leader Jairam Ramesh summed up the mood in the countrys oldest party by saying Our performance is worse than the worst case scenarioCongress president Sonia Gandhi who won easily from Rae Bareli unlike her son Rahul Gandhi added The peoples verdict is against us Both took responsibility for thedefeat congratulated the BJP but didnt name ModiAs an army of officials continued to count the 550 million votes 172 million electronic voting machines polled across the country the BJP had won 26 seats and was leading in awhopping 255 others by 4 pmThe BJP is thus poised to bag a total of 281 seats in the Lok Sabha where a party needs 272 for a simple majority Modi is expected to be sworn in prime minister by PresidentPranab Mukherjee on May 21A visibly jubilant Modi promptly called on his ageing mother the one person he respects the most in Gandhinagar Party colleague Ravi Shankar Prasad said The results showthe people of India love ModiThe most fundamental factor behind such a decisive mandate is the all India antiCongress sentiment political commentator Dipankar Gupta saidBJP president Rajnath Singh described the partys victory as superb and said a new era has begun in Indian politics Rajasthan Chief Minister Vasundhara Raj said Modi had electrified the nation Amit Shah Modis closest aide declared that India was poised to see major changes in politicsThe BJP was poised to win all but seven seats in Uttar Pradesh which elects the maximum of 80 members to the Lok Sabha The BJPled combine was also poised to bag 31 of the 40seats in neighbouring BiharInterestingly three of the four regional parties which too did well in their strongholds were not allied with Modi even if their leaders have had good equations with himTamil Nadus ruling AIADMK led by Chief Minister J Jayalalithaa will be the third largest party in the Lok Sabha It was on the victory lap in 36 of the states 39 seats a showing that punctured longtime rival DMKIn West Bengal the ruling Trinamool Congress decimated the Left It won three of the 42 seats and was leading all others in 31 constituencies The ruling Biju Janata Dal BJD in Odisha is set to win 20 of the 21 seatsThe BJPs oldest ally the Shiv Sena was on the victory lap in 19 of the 48 constituencies The Shiv SenaBJP combine would win 40 seats in the stateThe stock market shot up on news of the imminent BJP victoryAll BJP stalwarts won easily including Narendra Modi from both Vadodara in Gujarat and Varanasi in Uttar Pradesh Other prominent BJP victors were LK Advani Gandhinagar Rajnath Singh Lucknow Murli Manohar Joshi Kanpur Nitin Gadkari Nagpur and Sushma Swaraj VidishaThe only BJP leader who lost was Arun Jaitley leader of the party in the Rajya Sabha who was trounced by former Punjab chief minister Amarinder Singh of the Congress in AmritsarTens of thousands of BJP supporters celebrated the partys victory all over the country In New Delhi thousands gathered at the BJP headquarters dancing bursting firecrakcers and distributing sweetsMany Congress veterans bit the dust They included Home Minister Sushilkumar Shinde Ambika Soni Kapil Sibal Ghulam Nabi Azad Ajay Maken and Pawan Kumar BansalThe Left too suffered a major blow AAP leader Arvind Kejriwal who claimed he would easily defeat Modi in Varanasi lost by more than 200000 votes