How Modi eclipsed all other parties in Lok Sabha elections 2014?Top Stories

May 17, 2014 11:12
How Modi eclipsed all other parties in Lok Sabha elections 2014?},{How Modi eclipsed all other parties in Lok Sabha elections 2014?

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As the Lok Sabha Elections results 2014 countdown drew to a historic close, with the BJP-spearheaded NDA cinching a landslide win, the atmosphere across the country was electric.

The National Democratic Alliance (NDA) made it really large, bagging 336 seats — way ahead of the half-way mark. The BJP too sailed past the 272 mark comfortably,  conquering 282 seats on its own, making a massive gain of 166 seats from the 2009 elections.

The victory is simply historical —  not because of the 'Modi' factor alone — but because this is the largest victory any political party has claimed post the 1984 election when Rajiv Gandhi of Congress won the LS elections with a whopping 414 seats. Not just that, this is also the first time ever in the 67 long years of independent India's history that a non-Congress party has won with a single majority.

And the winds of change are already proving to be good for the country. At 9:30 am yesterday, just 30 minutes after the counting of votes began, the Sensex skyrocketed past 25,000 points for the first time ever before ending at 24,021 points. The rupee too everted past the 59 mark, plummeting to 58.91, for the first time ever since July 2013.

By 10.30 am, PM-designate Narendra Modi clamped Vadodara with 5,70,000 votes. Later speaking out to a large congregation of excited karyakartas and masses in Vadodara and Ahmedabad, Modi lauded his record win in Vadodara and told that the country would never get a better 'mazdoor' (labourer) than him.

No sooner the figures were somewhat clear, congratulations started coming in for the BJP leader. Pakistani PM Nawaz Sharif called him personally to congratulate him on his win and invited him to visit Pakistan. Bangladesh's Khaleeda Zia, Sri Lankan President Mahinda Rajapaksa, British Prime Minister David Cameron and Australian Prime Minister Tony Abbott also congratulated Modi.

Conceding defeat, Congress president Sonia Gandhi too congratulated the new dispensation. She said the Congress party might have been booed down by Indian population, but the party would continue to stay committed to its fundamental principles.

While the Congress was left with its worst-ever defeat with only 46 seats, Sonia Gandhi and Rahul Gandhi were the only two Congress candidates to win in Uttar Pradesh.

It wasn't all lost for the Aam Aadmi Party who bagged four seats in Punjab. Although the numbers were nothing close to the 100 seats that party chief Kejriwal had hoped for, with all the key players like Kumar Vishwas, Medha Patkar, Shazia Ilmi and Kejriwal himself losing, the party somehow managed to stay afloat in Punjab.

One of the biggest election defeats this elections came for BJP's Arun Jaitley who lost his contested seat to Congress's Amarinder Singh in Amritsar.

Meanwhile, the BJP made large gains countrywide, especially in the crucial state of Uttar Pradesh, where it swept 72 of 80 seats — a remarkable 700 percent rise since the 2009 election when it won just 10 seats. One of theseats went to BJP ally Apna Dal. The Samajwadi Party won five seats, all members of the Mulayam Singh Yadav family. Mayawati's BSP failed to open its account.

Another state that left Congress red-faced was, where the partyfained just two seats — Ashok Chavan and Rahul aide Rajeev Satav. Incidentally, Chavan could be disqualified for his involvement in a paid news case from a previous Assembly election. Among the major defeats were Milind Deora, Priya Dutt, Gurudas Kamath, Eknath Gaikwad, Sushilkumar Shinde, Manikrao Gavit and Vilas Muttemwar.

The NCP managed to eke out wins in Baramati (Supriya Sule) and three other seats.

In Delhi too, the Congress lost all its seven MPs.

In other parts of the country, some of the biggest Congress losers were Nandan Nilekani, Sachin Pilot, Raj Babbar, Rita Bahuguna Joshi and Sriprakash Jaiswal. RLD chief Ajit Singh lost too.

Rahul Gandhi, despite trailing in one round,  won against the BJP's Smriti Irani by 1,07,000-odd votes.

The state-wise leads reveal BJP stamping authority on a majority of Indian states. It swept all 26 seats in Gujarat, 10 out of 11 seats in Chhattisgarh, 27 out of 29 seats in Madhya Pradesh, all seven seats in Delhi. It won 41 seats of 48 in Maharashtra, 28 of 40 in Bihar, 12 of 14 in Jharkhand, 7 of 10 in Haryana and all the 2 seats in Goa.

Down south, in Tamil Nadu, where there is only one wave — Jayalalithaa — the AIADMK cinched 37 of the 39 seats and the BJP grabbed just 1 seat. This is a three-fold win for TN chief minister Jayalalithaa whose tally rose from 9 to 37 this elections.

In West Bengal, Mamata Banerjee's Trinamool Congress won the lion's share of seats, bagging 34 of  42 seats.

AW: Suchorita Choudhury

 

 

 

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