The mandate of the Tamil Nadu voters is against Prime Minister Narendra Modi and in favour of Rahul Gandhi becoming Prime Minister of the country, says Congress leader S Jothimani who won the Karur Lok Sabha seat for the second consecutive time in the 2024 election.
In a significant political shift in Uttar Pradesh, after the Samajwadi Party won 37 seats while the Bhartiya Janata Party managed to clinch 33 seats, former Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Akhilesh Yadav called the victory as "people-loved victory of INDIA alliance."
As per the latest numbers issued by the Election Commission of India, BJP won 30 seats and is leading on 211 seats. The Congress won 7 seats and is leading on 92 seats. JD(U) which is in alliance with the BJP is leading on 12 seats.
From Tripura West, BJP leader and former CM Biplab Kumar Deb won by a margin of over 6 lakh votes, while Kriti Devi Debbarman won in East Tripura by a margin of 4,86,819 votes.
Rajnath Singh on Tuesday also won the Lucknow Lok Sabha seat third time in a row by defeating Samajwadi party candidate Ravidas Mehrotra by over one lakh and 30 thousand votes.
As the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) won all 29 Lok Sabha seats in Madhya Pradesh, Chief Minister Mohan Yadav said that the election result is the third win of PM Modi against corruption and nepotism.
Congress workers expressed their jubilation after party candidate Pradyut Borodoloi won from the Nagaon parliamentary constituency in Assam on Tuesday.
Actor-turned-politician Hema Malini won the Mathura constituency for the third time in a row. She defeated Congress' Mukesh Dhangar by a huge margin of 2,93,407 votes.
Even as the Congress won the Assembly elections comfortably in Karnataka, the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) has secured a majority of the Lok Sabha seats in the state, taking its tally to 17.
The Chinese Embassy in Seoul criticized the recent joint statement on Taiwan issued by the United States, Japan, and South Korea, describing it as a series of "consecutive erroneous statements," Taiwan News reported.