International Desk: The counting of India’s 18th Lok Sabha Elections is over. The counting of votes started at 8:30 a.m. on Tuesday (June 4) after one and a half months of voting in seven stages. The Election Commission officially declared the results of 488 constituencies until 11:30 PM on the Election Commission of India website on Tuesday.
With this, Narendra Modi is going to become the Prime Minister for the third consecutive time. He is about to inscribe his name next to Jawaharlal Nehru, the first Prime Minister of independent India.
According to the Election Commission of India and media reports, the BJP-led NDA coalition won 286 seats. The India Alliance won 202 seats. The BJP alone failed to reach 272 seats to form a government. The party had 240 seats. Congress got 99. This means that the BJP will have to rely mainly on its two partners, Nitish Kumar’s JD-U and Chandrababu Naidu’s Telugu Desam Party (TDP) in Andhra Pradesh, to form the government. The combined seats of these two parties are 28.
President Mallikarjun Kharge said in a press conference with Sonia Gandhi, Rahul, and Priyanka at the party office yesterday afternoon that this result is a political and moral defeat of Prime Minister Narendra Modi. The BJP fought the entire election in the name of Modi. Modi also gave all the guarantees. It was a referendum for him or against him. People voted against Modi.
Both Kharge and Rahul said that the important meeting of the India Alliance will be held on Wednesday (today). The next decision will be taken after discussing it with everyone.
This time, as the presence of the opposition in the Parliament of India is more than 200, half of the parliamentary standing committee chairmanships should be given to them. The most important thing is that Modi did not listen to the demands of Heenbal’s opponents for the last five years, and this time the opposition should accept the post of Deputy Speaker of the Lok Sabha. Congress, which won 99 seats, will be given the post of Leader of Opposition, which needs to win 55 seats. Last time, it was Modi’s South.
Earlier in the 2019 elections, the BJP alone won 302 seats. Through this, they qualified to form a single government in the country. But this time the Hindutva party could not show such magic.
But the BJP can easily form the government with the parties in their ‘NDA’ alliance. Prime Minister Narendra Modi has already announced the formation of the government.
In India, if a party wants to form a government alone, it needs to win 272 out of 543 seats. If no party gets this number, then they can form a coalition and form the government.
