All the polls are resounding the major victory of the Bharatiya Janata Party-led National Democratic Alliance (NDA) in the 2024 Lok Sabha elections in South India like Tamil Nadu and Kerala. Exit polls were conducted on Saturday, According to their projections BJP itself has won 303 seats, Now led by NDA it would cross 400 “ab ki baar 400 paar”.
The most striking takeaways from exit polls scream that the BJP would get significant gains in West Bengal, Odisha, Tamil Nadu, Kerala and Andhra Pradesh. While they are projected to consolidate their position in Telangana.
It is in Maharashtra and some northern states NDA led to slow down with 10 seats, BJP itself won 41 seats in 2019 now, with 10 seats it would move down. The Congress-led INDIA bloc is projected to gain in Bihar, Rajasthan and Haryana.
In West Bengal where BJP has a battle with Congress for its 42 seats, exit polls projected anywhere between 21 and 30 seats for the saffron party. While the ABP-CVoter gave the BJP 23-27 seats.
Importantly, in Karnataka, where it recently lost the Assembly polls, the BJP is going to hold minimum losses according to exit polls. The party has won 25 – 27 seats in 2019 but most exit polls predict 18-25 seats only for BJP.
The trend is significant with the BJP having made efforts for 10 years and built inroads in Southern India, particularly in Kerala and Tamil Nadu.
Prime Minister Narendra Modi returned to Delhi after meditating for two days at Vivekananda Rock in Kanyakumari in Tamil Nadu.
While in Uttar Pradesh the BJP is expecting to improve with marginal seats from 2019 to 2024, tally of 62; in Bihar, the BJP-led JDU combine is expected to lose 6-7 seats in Rajasthan according to exit polls. Madhya Pradesh and Gujarat are extremely clean to sweep through the BJP.
The poll of polls by exit reports estimated the BJP-led NDA alliance getting 358 seats and the INDIA Alliance getting 148 seats; other parties are projected to get 37 seats.
