Adding to the celebrations of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), Kirti Azad – a member of India`s 1983 World Cup winning team, won from Bihar`s Darbhanga after beating RJD`s Mohammed Ali Ashraf Fatmi by 35043 votes.
As many as 31 victorious candidates, including former union minister Anbumani Ramadoss, in Tamil Nadu will be making their maiden Lok Sabha entry.
Veteran Congress leader and Union Minister, Mullappally Ramachandran retained the Vadakara constituency, by edging out CPI(M)`s A N Shamseer of LDF by a slender margin of 3306 votes in a fluctuating battle.
UN chief Ban Ki-moon has commended the Indian government, its people and the political parties on peacefully conducting its weeks-long general elections.
BJP today said the people voted for Narendra Modi`s vision and his promise to weed out corruption and controlling price rise in the country.
Arvind Kejriwal-led Aam Aadmi Party, which tasted success only in Punjab winning four Lok Sabha seats, made inroads into the vote-share of the state`s ruling SAD-BJP alliance as well as the opposition Congress.
West Bengal`s ruling Trinamool Congress put up a spectacular show, sweeping the Lok Sabha polls in the state to emerge as the fourth-largest party in the new Lok Sabha, while the BJP signalled its rise as a force by eating into the vote share of the erstwhile rulers Left Front which was nearly wiped out.
BJP candidate Hema Malini made a dream debut from Mathura Lok Sabha constituency defeating incumbent Jayant Chaudhary of RLD by an impressive margin of 3,30,743 votes.
Congress` decision to field a local MLA against Narendra Modi in Varanasi appears to have backfired as the party`s nominee finished a distant third besides running the risk of forfeiting his deposit.
Security was stepped up today in the temple town ahead of BJP prime ministerial nominee Narendra Modi`s first visit as an elected MP of Varanasi here tomorrow.
A total of 4,31,992 people or 0.9 percent of the 60.42 percent electorate in Maharashtra have opted for None of the Above (NOTA) option in this elections.
All seven UPA ministers, including Salman Khurshid, Ajit Singh and Sriprakash Jaiswal, who contested in Uttar Pradesh have suffered defeat.
With party`s senior leaders, including its president Om Prakash Chautala in jail, it was going to be an acid test for second rung leaders of INLD in the Lok Sabha polls and they managed to create some impression.
Notwithstanding the sharp attack they had to face from the ruling Congress camp, turncoats fielded by BJP tasted success in Haryana.
The AAP candidate for the West Delhi seat, Jarnail Singh, has alleged that two other candidates sharing his name have cost him the seat as their presence in the fray confused the voters.
Despite having secured a massive win in Tamil Nadu, AIADMK supremo and Tamil Nadu Chief Minister J Jayalalithaa`s dream of carving a role for herself at the national scene has virtually failed to fructify.
Facing a very tough battle to retain his seat for a fifth Lok Sabha term from Solapur, Union Home Minister Sushil Kumar Shinde was among the Congress stalwarts who succumbed to the Modi wave in Maharashtra, losing to BJP`s Sharad Bansode by about 1.5 lakh votes.
Union Minister and Congress leader Jyotiraditya Scindia on Friday defended party president Rahul Gandhi saying that he worked `extremely hard`.
Arun Jaitley on Friday tried to shrug off the disappointment of his loss in Amritsar, saying it was like "a drop in the ocean" in the light of BJP`s unprecedented victory in Lok Sabha polls.
Only 1.1 percent voters opted for the newly introduced `None of the Above Option` in the 42 Lok Sabha seats in West Bengal, results for which were declared on Friday.
The experiment of the ruling Congress in Haryana to field MLAs in a three parliamentary seats in the state backfired.
TDP`s poll campaign refrain that only Chandrababu Naidu can develop residual state of Andhra Pradesh appeared to be the lone clinching factor in the party`s stupendous poll victory in Seemandhra.
After a severe drubbing in Lok Sabha polls, Maharashtra Pradesh Congress Committee today said resignations on moral grounds will not resolve problems faced by the party.
The BJP swept the Jharkhand Lok Sabha poll by winning 10 seats and is leading on two others while riding on a popularity wave of its prime ministerial candidate Narendra Modi.
After its mega victory in the Lok Sabha polls, the BJP is planning a grand welcome for its prime ministerial candidate Narendra Modi when he arrives here Saturday.
A total of 1.21 percent of electors who cast their votes in the 25 parliamentary constituencies in Rajasthan preferred NOTA (None of The Above) option in the just-finished Lok Sabha polls.
On his last day in office Saturday, Prime Minister Manmohan Singh will give a farewell address to the nation at 10 am on state-run Doordarshan before he goes to meet President Pranab Mukherjee to hand in his resignation.
Suffering a severe drubbing in the Lok Sabha polls today, Delhi Congress today said it accepted the verdict with humility and asked BJP to fulfil the promises it made to the people during the campaign.
Meghalaya Chief Minister Mukul Sangma today congratulated BJP prime ministerial candidate Narendra Modi on the party`s sweeping success in the Lok Sabha elections saying the Congress suffered due to anti-incumbency and a bad economic phase leading to inflation in the country.
All Union Ministers belonging to the Congress suffered humiliating defeats on Friday as the party was decimated in the Lok Sabha polls in Andhra Pradesh.
In an era of coalition politics, BJP has virtually done the impossible by wining a majority on its own, putting India under single party rule after 25 years.
A buoyant BJP today demanded Chief Minister Nitish Kumar`s resignation on moral grounds following the JD(U)`s rout in the polls.
Bucking the anti-Congress trend witnessed in the rest of the country, the ruling Congress-led UDF maintained edge over the LDF spearheaded by the CPI-M, winning 12 of the 20 seats albeit failing to match its 2009 tally of 16.
As the Narendra Modi-led BJP won a decisive mandate in the Lok Sabha elections, an influential American lawmaker today said the US failed to develop a strong friendship and comprehensive partnership with him when it mattered the most.
Narendra Modi said on Friday that he would spend every second of his life to working for the people.
Opposition PDP today said the Lok Sabha polls have resulted in a profound change in the political scenario of the country which has been reflected in Jammu and Kashmir as well.
Goa BJP expects a ministerial berth for Sripad Naik, who won for the fourth time from North Goa constituency today, in the next government to be led by Narendra Modi.
Union Heavy Industries Minister and senior NCP leader Praful Patel, seven-time Congress MP Vilas Muttemwar and Congress general secretary Mukul Wasnik are among those who have bitten the dust in Vidarbha region of Maharashtra in the Lok Sabha election.
For the first time after the 1991 Lok Sabha elections, the DMK will not have its representatives in the Lower House and similarly Congress will have no nominees from Tamil Nadu after 1998.
In the run-up to new government formation, the Union Cabinet will meet tomorrow and recommend to President Pranab Mukherjee for dissolution of the 15th Lok Sabha.
TRS president K Chandrasekhar Rao today thanked Telangana people for reposing faith in his outfit and said the party`s newly-elected MLAs would meet tomorrow to elect their leader.
Only one out of 27 woman candidates won the Lok Sabha elections in Rajasthan where BJP registered a landslide victory by winning all the 25 parliamentary seats.
Buoyed by BJP`s spectacular show in the Lok Sabha polls, its Delhi chief Harsh Vardhan today said the party was ready for assembly elections and insisted that it would not resort to any kind of "manipulation" to form government in the city.
The political hotspot of Kannur in North Kerala witnessed a neck and neck race before CPI(M) candidate P K Sreemathi wrested the seat from sitting MP K Sudhakaran of Congress by about 6,000 votes.
Meghalaya emerged with the highest percentage of voters who chose the NOTA option available with the EVMs introduced for the first time, an election official said on Friday.
Kashmiri Pandits (KPs) today took out a massive victory rally to celebrate the landslide victory of Narendra Modi-led BJP in the Lok Sabha elections here.
The Maharashtra Navnirman Sena (MNS) bubble has burst in the Lok Sabha polls.
So, it`s now certain that Narendra Modi will be India`s next prime minister and he will lead the BJP-led National Democratic Alliance government at the Centre for the next five years – the full tenure is for sure because the party on its own has crossed the simple majority of 272 seats, with the NDA winning over 300.
With the BJP achieving a landslide victory in the Lok Sabha polls, ABVP - the student wing of the saffron party, joined the celebrations here today.