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The brand violence, and both the PM inflicted on the Congress chief. tating that the landslide ‘Modi’ has outshone every and BJP chief Amit Shah had The results show that in Srepeat mandate has sur- competitor, be it regional warned that those engaged in direct contest with the BJP, the prised the whole world and put satraps or Congress president bloodletting will pay for it Congress has no chance to forward a “new narrative” for Rahul Gandhi, who found few after the elections. Now, that survive. The two parties were India for waging a decisive bat- takers for his “chowkidar chor the BJP stands neck and neck locked in direct contest on tle against poverty, Prime hai” jibe at the PM. with the TMC in terms of 184 seats, of which 174 went to Minister Narendra Modi on The result shows the BJP tally and its voting percentage the BJP. Thursday promised that he has emerged as a pan-India has increased phenomenally, There is no denying the would go all-out to live up to force as the saffron party made the party is expected to make fact that Hindutva and nation- the “big trust” reposed on him big inroad into the strongly a big push to grab power in the alism were the two most by the people. The PM said he poverty next five-year. Taking protected fortresses of Mamata State in next Assembly polls. prominent agenda for the BJP. would carry all political parties a dig at Left parties and their Banerjee’s West Bengal and The West Bengal result No surprise Sadhvi Pragya along to make the country alleged commitment to the Navin Patnaik’s Odisha. Except shows that, like in every other Singh Thakur was able to van- prosperous and strong. welfare of workers, he said the Kerala and Tamil Nadu, the part of India, there has been a quish veteran Digvijaya Singh Modi, who walked into BJP Government provided footprint of the BJP is clearly significant consolidation of despite calling Nathuram the BJP headquarters in the pension to 40 crore labourers visible all over the country. Hindu voters in the State with Godse a nationalist. Giriraj evening along with party chief in the unorganised sector. The result emphatically 27 per cent Muslim population. Singh’s massive victory over Amit Shah to a tumultuous Even as Shah in his address negated pre-poll calculations The BJP’s strategy to centre its Kanhaiya Kumar is also reflec- welcome with thousands of to workers directly attacked that the coming together of campaign around Hindutva tion of the success of the party’s workers chanting “Modi- dynasty, caste and politics of anti-BJP forces in several States paid off rich dividends. Hindutva agenda. Modi”, “Bharat Mata ki Jai” and appeasement and the setback could stop Modi’s juggernaut The BJP victory is all the The BJP victory is “Vande Mataram’, said the ulti- they got in the poll results, the there. While the Uttar Pradesh’s more significant because the undoubtedly fuelled by the mate victor in the elections are Prime Minister said he would mahagathbhandhan of party crossed halfway mark of support of all sections and people of India who “ fought let go of what happened during Samajhwadi Party and BSP did 50 per cent seats in 17 States caste, but it is believed that even the polls”. polls and run the Government pull down the BJP a bit, but in such as Gujarat, Maharashtra, a significant section of the He said political pundits with the consensus of all. Bihar, Jharkhand, Karnataka Madhya Pradesh, Haryana, UP, Muslim voted for the saffron will have to re-visit their tools “Governments are formed and Maharashtra, no one could Rajasthan, Arunachal Pradesh outfit. Senior to analyse the repeat “prachand by majority but run by con- withstand the force of the all- among others. BJP leader Mukhtar Abbas bahumat” (massive mandate)” sensus of all”, he said adding pervasive Modi wave. The Congress will have a Naqvi put this number to 30 saying “this is new India”. “we have to look ahead” and The outcome is particular- lot to think after its pathetic per cent. Taking a dig at political taken even our political rivals ly worrisome for West Bengal show. Rahul Gandhi may have Continued on Page 4 parties deriving their suste- with us for making India a nance from the “tag of secu- prosperous and strong country. larism”, Modi said they were ; silenced by the big political vic- $ tory of BJP in 2014. “2014 tak () us jamat ne bolna band kar < diya”, he said saying they were ; “de-masked”. Vowing that he would go beyond caste-based considera- ; <; &:: 772 1)- General elections. tions, the Prime Minister said, "++ The States where the “Caste-based political parties L 1/ fter its success in the three Congress could not even open received a big shock this elec- AAssembly elections last its account include Rajasthan, tion”, adding, “with the spirit year, the Congress once again Gujarat, Delhi, Haryana, which prevailed during free- <( performed miserably against Uttarakhand, Odisha, Jammu dom movement we can remove the BJP at the national level. Kashmir and Himachal poverty during 2019 to 24”. <= The party president Rahul Pradesh. Apart from these, the Detailing his welfare Gandhi faced the mortification Congress also has no presence schemes which fulfilled aspi- of a humiliating defeat at the in Andaman and Nicobar, rations of youth, farmers, hands of Smriti Irani in the Dadra and Nagar Haveli, labourers and middle-class, <9 family bastion of Amethi. Daman and Diu, Lakshadweep, Modi said his Government 55 The party scored a duck in Manipur, Mizoram, Sikkim P would fast-track its war against L ( $ 18 States and saw nine of its and Tripura. !"#$%& ' ( )*' former Chief Ministers biting The UPA which has the dust. For the second time, Congress as its main con- the grand old party did not get stituents could not even touch % % R ! enough number to bag leader three digit figure with its major of Opposition post in the Lok alliance partners like NCP, & 2 !-:1 Sabha. JD(S) and others showing a dis- 2/ 1:/2 According to ing from the Malda South seat. L While Rahul lost from mal performance. !" last reports — even Making a record of sorts the Amethi, there were no takers Senior Congress leaders eft and Congress were blown off, as VVPATs were Left Front not only transferred 23 ; P for sister Priyanka Gandhi in who lost included Lok Sabha > #++9 LTMC lost much of its roof in the being counted — the ruling Trinamool per cent votes to the saffron out- :5 UP. The party lost all the seats Mallikarjun Kharge from % Saffron Fani as 2019 election results on Congress was leading in 22 seats con- fit but also for the first time since where Priyanka campaigned or Kalaburgi in Karnataka, former () Thursday saw BJP seriously denting ceding 12 seats to the BJP which was 1955 drew a blank sending no MP < conducted road-shows. Delhi CM Shiela Dikshit from ()-? % Mamata Banerjee’s stronghold. leading in 18 seats. from the erstwhile Red citadel. ! The only face saver for North East Delhi, former M: In an extraordinarily polarised The Congress which won Percentage-wise the TMC % Congress was Kerala (15) and Madhya Pradesh CM Digvijay atmosphere, the Lok Sabha poll results four seats in 2014 was leading in polled about 43 per cent votes while Punjab (8) which helped the Singh from Bhopal, former <N- found BJP making massive inroads only two seats with former PCC pres- the BJP got about 41 per cent votes ; party reach a tally 51 (till 8pm) Maharashtra Chief Ministers ! into TMC “green fort” of Bengal ident and sitting MP Adhir wresting almost 23 per cent votes from L seats which is merely seven Ashok Chavan from Nanded. apparently getting a huge chunk of Left Chowdhury clinching the Behrampore the Left which got just about 8 per cent. more from the tally of 2014 Continued on Page 4 Front votes to swing its way. seat and AH Khan Chowdhury lead- Continued on Page 4 P ' "*$* QR +R,* $ !! 95:7 1 1:&&3 rewritten the history by secur- constituencies had not been 339096 votes. In Garhwal Lok ing 145 plus seats, out of officially declared till the time Sabha, Tirath Singh Rawat of 175 Assembly seg- he BJP trounced the caste-based alliance of he saffron surge in almost of this report filed . BJP defeated Manish Khanduri he YSR Congress ments. In his own words, TSP-BSP-RLD in Uttar Pradesh, and along Tall parts of the country The results of Haridwar, of Congress by a margin of TParty wiped out the this is unprecedented in with its ally Apna Dal (Sonelal), bagged two- that has catapulted the Nainital-Udham Singh Nagar 302669 votes.