The saffron party is heading for a sweep in Gujarat, Haryana, Delhi and has made inroads in West Bengal and Odisha. The numbers released by the EC indicate the party has also regained its lost ground in the three states — Chhattisgarh, Madhya Pradesh and Rajasthan, where it had tasted defeat in the 2018 Assembly elections.
In Uttar Pradesh, the BJP is leading in 57 seats, BSP in 11 seats, Akhilesh Yadav’s Samajwadi Party in 8 seats while the Congress is ahead in 1 seat. PM Modi is leading with a massive margin in Varanasi, Sonia Gandhi is ahead with 11,174 votes. In his home turf Amethi, Congress chief Rahul Gandhi is facing a tough fight against BJP’s Smriti Irani. After initial trends put Rahul in the lead, Smriti has now raced ahead with a margin of over 3,000 votes.
In Madhya Pradesh, BJP is leading on 28 seats, while Congress on 1. On the other hand in Rajasthan, the saffron party is leading on 24 seats and Rashtriya Loktantrik Party (RLP) on 1 seat. In Bihar, the JD(U) and the BJP are leading with 16 seats each, LJP 6 and RJD is trailing with 2 seats. In Chhattisgarh, the BJP is leading on 9 seats and Congress on 2.
The seven-phase polls were conducted between April 11 and May 19 in which around 67 per cent of the nearly 900 million eligible people exercised their franchise to elect 542 members of the Lok Sabha from a total of 8,049 contestants.
Smriti Irani offers prayers at temple in Amethi.
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