The Rashtriya Janata Dal, led by Lalu Prasad’s son Tejashwi Yadav and the main party in the Bihar mahagathbandhan, could not manage to win even a single seat in 2019 Lok Sabha election out of the 20 seats it contested.
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Stabilized trends at around 4pm indicate that Narendra Modi’s BJP is leading in as many as 301 seats, which is 19 more than it won in the 2014 Lok Sabha election. Along with the BJP, the NDA is expected to touch or even cross 350 seats in the 543-member House.
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The Election Commission rejected a demand by 22 opposition parties asking that voter-verifiable paper audit trail should be counted before electronic voting machines in polling stations wherever applicable.
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Amid complaints of alleged tampering of EVMs, opposition parties in several states are keeping a round-the-clock vigil on the storage rooms where the voting machines are kept in high security, ahead of the counting of votes in the 2019 Lok Sabha election.
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Although, YSRCP and TRS have been in touch with opposition parties since the exit-poll results, the BJP has also been banking on the two parties to boost the NDA numbers if the mandate doesn’t turn out to be what the exit polls predicted.
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Two days before counting of votes begins, representatives of 22 opposition parties met the Election Commission officials to make a host of demands including “tracking” of electronic voting machines and extensive use of voter-verified paper audit trails.
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The Bharatiya Janata Party has challenged the Kamal Nath-led Congress government in Madhya Pradesh and called for a special assembly to prove its majority in the floor of the 230-member house.
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The exit polls of the Lok Sabha election 2019 have been released by various agencies, right after the seventh and the last phase of the election got over. The figures reflect that the BJP-led NDA is heading for a landslide win.
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Telugu Desam Party leader and Andhra Pradesh chief minister N Chandrababu Naidu met Congress president Rahul Gandhi in order to bring together opposition parties and cement an anti-BJP front.
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The AAP seems to have conceded that he has suffered losses in Delhi in the Lok Sabha election. Delhi chief minister and Aam Aadmi Party chief Arvind Kejriwal said Delhi’s Muslim vote “shifted” to the Congress at the last minute before the polling started.
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