Lok Sabha Election Results 2024: PM Modi set for historic 3rd term; Congress emerges a strong opposition

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Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP)-led National Democratic Alliance (NDA) secured a simple majority in the 543-member Lok Sabha. The election results announced on June 4, however, indicated that the NDA has not achieved the landslide victory that most exit polls had predicted.The NDA was hovering around 292 seats as on 9 pm, according to Election Commission of India numbers. The opposition INDIA bloc was leading in 232 seats, again belying all exit poll predictions.

A party or a coalition needs to win at least 272 seats to come to power at the centre.Follow Lok Sabha Elections 2024 Live Updates hereThe only Prime Minister to have had three terms in office was Jawaharlal Nehru. Jawaharlal Nehruserved as Prime Minister of India for a period of 16 years and 286 days from 1947 until 1964. Nehru was elected Prime Minister after the Congress party won the first general elections in 1951-52 and then in 1957 and 1962.PM Modi addressed BJP workers, along with senior leaders, at party headquarters in New Delhi on June 4 evening.

“PM Modi has always led the country, the party and the people of the nation from the front, and I welcome him here today. I also thank the NDA partners and their workers, and the BJP workers who worked hard over the last few months and helped the NDA win (the elections)," BJP chief JP Nadda said at the event.In 2019, the NDA had won 353 seats with BJP bagging 303 of them. The opposition's UPA alliance had won 91 seats with the Congress party bagging 52 of them.Of the 133 seats that the INDIA bloc was leading on Tuesday evening, the Congress was leading on 99 seats.