Lok Sabha Election results 2024: Why Modi 3.0 coalition govt is good news for India. Yogendra Yadav explains

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National Democratic Alliance(NDA) is all set to form its third consecutive government at the Centre under Prime Narendra Minister Modi. But the results of Lok Sabha Elections 2024 were not on expected lines, with the NDA numbers not crossing 300 seats and the BJP stopping at 240 seats, 32 short of the majority mark in the 543-member lower house.The results belied all exit poll numbers predicting a thumping win for the NDA. And the only prediction that turned out to be true about the saffron party's numbers was by Yogendra Yadav, the convenor of Bharat Jodo Abhiyan.Yadav, who prefers to be introduced as a political worker instead of a psephologist, had rightly predicted that the BJP would finish below 250 seats.

Yadav, 60, had also mentioned about an ‘undercurrent’ against the BJP in Uttar Pradesh. As it turned out, the BJP could win only 33 seats in UP as against 62 it won in 2019 elections.In an exclusive interview with LiveMint, Yadav spoke about factors that didn't' work for the ruling NDA, what went right for the opposition INDIA bloc and why a coalition government is a good news for Indian democracy. Edited excerpts from the interview:I am not a psephologist.

I used to be one. What I did was my duty as a political activist. All I did in my capacity as a political worker, I just tried to puncture the false narrative that was being put out before the country.

And I happened to get the range almost right.Mr Modi's victory of 2014 was a clear majority secured by a political party BJP after three decades. In 2019, his mandate was an improvement and the BJP crossed 300 seats. So from there where it has come down, it's a moral defeat for the BJP.