INDIA defies poll predictions while NDA faces huge setback in UP, West Bengal: ‘Surprise number game’ in Election Result
And as per early trend, of 42 seats in Bengal, TMC is leading in 31, BJP in 10 and Congress in 1. For BJP, it is a 10 seat less from the 2019 Lok Sabha elections.
Similarly, for Uttar Pradesh, the alliance of the SP and Congress turned the tables on the BJP in its strongest bastion by ensuring a consolidation of anti-BJP votes, limiting the party to leads in only 33 seats as against 62 it had won last time. Together, the SP-Congress alliance was ahead in 42 seats.
"Our exit poll says that the INDIA bloc is winning the maximum number of seats in Uttar Pradesh. I have got an internal survey done that also shows good numbers for us," Akhilesh Yadav said on Monday cancelling on exit poll predictions.
On its own, the Bharatiya Janata Party appeared to be falling below the majority mark with leads in 236 seats despite significant gains in Odisha, Telangana and Kerala, giving some solace to the party after the unexpected losses in the Hindi belt.Its rival INDIA alliance, forged together by their common dislike for the BJP and its ideology, was leading in about 230 seats. In the last elections, the BJP had 303 seats on its own, while the NDA had over 350.The final numbers are also likely to be far short of the "400-paar" predictions by Prime Minister Narendra Modi, and "370-paar" for BJP.
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