Lok Sabha Election Results Live: Discussions on forming grand coalition government take place.
New Delhi:
The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP)-led National Democratic Alliance (NDA) is scheduled to hold a rally of its newly elected legislators in the Central Hall of Parliament today.
The talks on forming a grand alliance government are expected to take place after the NDA won 293 seats in the Lok Sabha elections, giving it a majority, while the BJP managed to get just 240 seats, far less than its 2019 tally.
The NDA parties, at a meeting held at the Prime Minister’s Office on Wednesday, unanimously passed a resolution to elect Prime Minister Narendra Modi as the party leader.
A total of 21 NDA leaders signed the resolution, appreciating PM Modi’s efforts in nation building, welfare of the poor and development, adding that they were all partners in the endeavour.
Here are live updates of 2024 Lok Sabha Elections results:
Of the 17 women candidates fielded by major political parties in Maharashtra, seven won in the recently concluded 2024 Lok Sabha elections, including four from the Indian National Congress.
The women MPs from Maharashtra who will be contesting in the 18th Lok Sabha elections are:
1. Supriya Sule
Supriya, daughter of veteran politician Sharad Pawar, won her fourth consecutive seat in Baramati constituency, defeating her cousin Sunetra Pawar, wife of Deputy Chief Minister Ajit Pawar, by 1,58,333 votes. This is the first time that both members of the Pawar family are contesting in their local district.
2. Smita Wagh
The BJP maintained its lead in Jalgaon constituency, where Smita Wagh won comfortably by 2,51,594 votes against Shiv Sena’s (UBT) Karan Balasaheb Patil Pawar, a constituency that has been the saffron party’s stronghold since 1999.
3. Raksha Khadse
BJP leader Raksha Khadse, daughter-in-law of veteran politician Eknath Khadse, recorded her third consecutive victory by defeating NCP (SP)’s Shriram Dayaram Patil by 272,183 votes in the Rubber Islands constituency. She is the widow of Nikhil Khadse and first contested from the constituency as BJP candidate in 2014.
4. Praniti Shinde
Praniti is the daughter of former Union minister Sushilkumar Shinde and is the state assembly member from Solapur municipal constituency. In the 2024 elections, she defeated BJP state assembly member Ram Satpute from Solapur assembly constituency by 74,197 votes.
5. Varsha Gaikwad
Varsha Gaikwad, Mumbai unit chief of the Indian National Congress and Dharavi MP, defeated prominent lawyer and BJP candidate Ujjwal Nikam from Mumbai North Central constituency by a margin of 16,514 votes.
6. Pratibha Dhanolkar
Pratibha, the incumbent Congress MP from Warora, won the 2024 elections from Chandrapur constituency, which was represented by her husband, Suresh Dhanorkar, from 2019 until his death in 2023. Pratibha defeated state forest minister Sudheer Mungantiwar by a margin of 260,406 votes.
7. Shobha Dinesh Bachav
Shobha Bachav of the Indian National Congress party defeated two-term incumbent Subhash Bhamre in the Dhule constituency in northern Maharashtra state, which had been held by the Bharatiya Janata Party since 2009, by 3,831 votes.
Sanitation workers, transgender people and workers associated with the Central Vista project will be present as special guests at Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s inauguration ceremony this weekend, sources said on Friday.
Railway personnel working in Vande Bharat and Metro, beneficiaries of central government schemes and ‘Vikshit Bharat’ ambassadors have also been invited to the much-awaited swearing-in ceremony scheduled to take place at the President’s House on Sunday.
According to sources, preparations are underway to receive over 8,000 guests at the presidential palace.
▪️ Over 8,000 people are expected to attend.
▪️ Modi 3.0 will take oath of office on June 9.
▪️ Preparations begin for the swearing-in ceremony at the Presidential Palace.
▪️ Invite Vande Bharat employees.
▪️ Invite Viksit Bharat Ambassadors.
The BJP on Thursday slammed Congress leader Rahul Gandhi for alleging links with “BJP, exit polling firms and questionable foreign investors” and accused party leaders of “conspiring to mislead market investors”.
Union Commerce Minister Piyush Goyal said at a press conference that the Indian National Congress leader “is yet to get over the defeat of the opposition in the Indian Lok Sabha elections,” after several opposition parties came together to form an Indian coalition to take on the Bharatiya Janata Party-led Indian National Congress in the upcoming Lok Sabha elections.
With the BJP falling short of a majority in the Indian parliament, its allies in the NDA have begun intense negotiations over key central government ministries. The allies, including coalition veterans N. Chandrababu Naidu and Nitish Kumar, reportedly presented their demands at an NDA meeting held yesterday. There has been no official announcement yet on what they have demanded, but frantic negotiations are reportedly underway.
Naidu’s TDP, which won 16 seats in the Lower House and also won a landslide victory in the Andhra Pradesh state assembly elections, is speculating that it is seeking five ministerial posts, including minister of state for finance and speaker of the Lok Sabha. The TDP may also be considering areas such as roads, panchayati raj, health and education.
Two days after the Indian Lok Sabha elections saw the BJP fail to secure a majority, its allies in the NDA have begun intense negotiations over key central government posts. But sources say the BJP is not willing to let go of key seats or roles. With the largest party nowhere near the magic number, the NDA alliance is facing a tight deadline to reach an agreement as plans move ahead to swear in the third Narendra Modi government this weekend.
Tuesday’s Lok Sabha elections left the BJP 32 seats short of a majority, making their support crucial to forming and running a new government, with Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar and incoming Andhra Pradesh Chief Minister Chandrababu Naidu emerging as kingmakers.
