Prime Minister Narendra Modi's Hindu nationalist Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) increased its majority in India's election with its best-ever tally of 303 seats, final results confirmed on Friday.
The main opposition Congress party trailed the BJP with 52 out of the 543 elected seats in parliament, data from the Election Commission showed.
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Bhaskar
May 24, 2019 06:42pm
Congratulations Narendra Modi.
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Begger
May 24, 2019 07:04pm
Congratulations..
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Surya Kant
May 24, 2019 07:08pm
Modi is a great leader
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Farhan Akhtar
May 24, 2019 07:26pm
Congrats to Imran Khan
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Pervez
May 24, 2019 08:05pm
@Farhan Akhtar, for helping Modi to win?
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Gordon D. Walker
May 24, 2019 08:11pm
Modi deserves his hard won victory. Congratulations!
Gordon D. Walker
Canada
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Om Prakash Verma
May 24, 2019 08:18pm
People have voted for stability. There was no viable alternative to BJP. And Congress meant corruption and instability.
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Samir
May 24, 2019 08:53pm
10% of total seats is the qualification for a party to be called opposition. 54seats mark crossed by none in India.
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Pranta Datta
May 24, 2019 08:54pm
Modi is good leader
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Abhay
May 24, 2019 08:55pm
Congress party looses their land in indian politics. Not even in a position to form opposition in parliament for the consecutive 2nd term is terrible. People reject Rahul Gandhi and Congress old politics. The foundation laid by the great Atal Bihari Bajpayee is now proving for BJP.
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Kk
May 24, 2019 09:04pm
BJP is not Hindu nationalist
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bhaRAT©
May 24, 2019 09:26pm
Polarisation & extremism will flourish.
This is what most RSS inspired followers wish by the looks of it!
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mark
May 24, 2019 10:19pm
@Surya Kant , "Modi is a great leader"
No he isn't , none of the promises he made in 2014 has been fulfilled ... instead , he is clever enough to change the focus from his failed promises to "nationalism " .. he doesn't need to tell us to love our motherland "INDIA" . instead he should answer as to what happened to the promise of bringing back black money from offshore accounts , what happened to the promise of generating 10 million jobs ( we are at the highest unemployment rate in the last 40 years.) . I voted for BJP in 2014 but i choose not to vote at all because they all are crooks
either these politicians are smart enough to make fool us everytime OR we are all dumb to not see this happening to us !
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Nitin
May 24, 2019 10:38pm
Congratulations Modi.. The finest Hindu King of India ever.
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Just another Dave
May 24, 2019 10:45pm
India is all set to become the fastest growing major economy in the world. Great Going Indians. Hopefully it will join the first world very very soon.
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Ahmed
May 24, 2019 11:13pm
Israeli / USA selected BJP party. Fake elections.
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Bhaarteey
May 24, 2019 11:20pm
Modi means Magic Of Democratic India.
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Amarnay
May 24, 2019 11:22pm
This victory was so predictable
Government approval ratings never went below 50% throughout these 5 years
Opinion polls through out always showed modi is winning
Growth and reforms showed results, India's average GDP growth stood at 7.3%
Inflation was kept under 5% which was in double digits
1.5crore homes were built, 10crore LPG connections were given, 12.5crore mudra loans were distributed, medicine prices capped. Farmers got pension, Corp insurance soil card etc. Poor got 5 lakh insurance , FDI at it's highest. Infrastructure growth at it's highest. Not a single instance of corruption and all projects running on time. Things like GST which was in cold storage for decades was implemented and tremendous political will shown against terrorism. These are facts in numbers. Liberals and commies tried to portray these things in a different light but they failed miserably because a common man is seeing these things happening in their day today life. Modi deserve this . Kudos to him
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lone star
May 24, 2019 11:24pm
GABBAR is back.
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lone star
May 24, 2019 11:26pm
@Kk, it is and it is ok to be one. if it is ok for our neighbouring countries to be islamic, then why not india hindu country.
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Sajjad Memon
May 24, 2019 11:27pm
@Kk, Al Qaeda said the same.
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Ranajyoti
May 24, 2019 11:32pm
It is NDA's win with 352 seats out of 543.
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Chetan Jadhav
May 24, 2019 11:59pm
Wrong total winning seats are 350
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Rajput
May 25, 2019 12:01am
A big slap on people doubting his return.
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Pakistan Cricket Fan
May 25, 2019 12:17am
The Indian electorate, much like our own seems less to care about policies and more about personalities who have a proven track record of honesty and are allegedly free from the stigma of corruption or promoting their own family members in politics, i.e. shunning or not being able tp practice nepotism. Does the electorate really know what they have let themselves in for? I'm afraid not. In his campaign I don't believe he ever mentioned poverty alleviation, universal education, universal health and wellness or the economy. He won despite his awful track record on unemployment, persistent poverty, huge gulf between the haves and the have-nots, etc. Only bravado and show of strength against the little neighbouring state which should be of little consequence to huge India. But it appealed to the electorate.
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Rohit Pandey
May 25, 2019 12:17am
@Om Prakash Verma, And, that is that!
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A Thinking Pakistani Indian
May 25, 2019 12:23am
@Kk, Then what is it?
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Vivek
May 25, 2019 12:24am
This called real democracy and we are proud of it, it is will of the people and we respect it
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Faran
May 25, 2019 12:27am
@Kk, The leftists and pseudo seculars labeled them and on this assumption they fought the elections that is why they lost. The leftists and Congress through propaganda kept minorities away from BJP. BJP in reality an Indian nationalist party. Slowly minorities are understanding this and they are now voting BJP. This is why we see BJP won so many seats. They performed well in minority dominated areas. Our media and people should comeout of the old mindset.
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Vivek
May 25, 2019 12:27am
@Gordon D. Walker, that I'd called democracy
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M. Emad
May 25, 2019 12:51am
Return of Modi's BJP will bring peace in South Asia.
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Javed
May 25, 2019 01:44am
India is a Hindu state, the people have spoken.
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Javed
May 25, 2019 01:49am
@Begger, India is a Hindu state, the people have spoken.
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Vikram Sood
May 25, 2019 02:03am
Modi just became bigger and more powerful.
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Zich
May 25, 2019 03:48am
Before Palwama and specialy Indian election I had very cool perception about people of India : educated, vibrant, good brains etc but after Modi Je on driving seat again shoops, I have to revisit my perception because He succeeded radicalising most of the Indians.
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dilip agrawal
May 25, 2019 03:54am
I have thoghts some m.p. of india some m.p.pakistan discuss matter in some month.in delhi and islamabad.
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Farooqui
May 25, 2019 04:26am
@Kk, Yes BJP is not Hindu nationalist - its bashes Minorities for fun only
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Papi
May 25, 2019 04:35am
Modi beyond 2024
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Lal Kabutar
May 25, 2019 05:28am
Indian Media reports 340 plus figures for BJP and 90 plus for congress.
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Lone star
May 25, 2019 05:34am
He will stay until India is fully developed and secure nation.
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aamir
May 25, 2019 05:45am
@Surya Kant , minor leader won by playing against the sentiments of minorities? a world witnessed it, next time it would be difficult to play foul
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M
May 25, 2019 05:57am
Voted to extremists Hindutava
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Zak
May 25, 2019 06:07am
The Modern day Hitler, with nukes. World beware.
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Hari
May 25, 2019 06:17am
Many Muslims supported Modi , BJP what favour done Hindus ?
For muslim women - He removed instant divorce.
For poor people - 10% reservation ( all religions)
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Manjeet
May 25, 2019 07:13am
Most out standing leader with no personal wealth accumulated for self or family
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Indian by heart
May 25, 2019 07:18am
@Kk,
Even if they are, why be apologetic about it???
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Hari
May 25, 2019 07:36am
@mark, one of the best things Modi did is stoped funds of Illegal NGOs for missionaries in India to convert poor people into Christians by paying them.
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Justicefirst
May 25, 2019 07:42am
Good for India and good for Pakistan that family politics has come to an end in India and will follow in Pakistan too.
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SANJEEV KUMAR YADAV
May 25, 2019 07:43am
People's mandate.
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Surajee
May 25, 2019 07:50am
As US president Trump tweeted, India is lucky to have Modi as the prime minister!
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Shy Guy
May 25, 2019 07:54am
@mark, every single promise is fulfilled by Modi. But if you are expecting to get 15 lakh. Joke is on you. Also people who are self employed or are in private sector are also called employed. Go check the application for PF to get a look at employment generation. If you think that so many people can fooled in a democracy. May be you need treatment.
Nobody is going to come to your house and get you a job. You have to earn that, what he can provide you is equal opportunity rest is all your talent. It's called meritocracy.
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Observer
May 25, 2019 07:58am
Congratulations to Modi. All of India’s enemies were hoping to get Modi out of office but people of India made right choice.
You don’t get 300 plus seats unless people from all sections of society vote for you.
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Ajay
May 25, 2019 09:15am
@mark, try to make career in five years, here we are talking of building nation. All the problems you have mentioned didn't crop up in Modi's time. They were there inspite someone given chance for 60 years. Modi has done lot (including few mistakes, I m not his blind supporter) & Modi remains best bet to face these problems
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Human
May 25, 2019 09:16am
@mark, Thanks for not voting in favor of BJP, true Indians have understood it well in advance, they become united this time & all of them given vote to BJP, I trust in 2024, BJP will win 401 seats.
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Human
May 25, 2019 09:17am
@Ahmed, Actually election are conducted only in Pakistan, where people select their candidate with true intention.
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omveer
May 25, 2019 10:49am
Actually Congress has improved its tally. Last time it was just 44. Now it's 52. Made half century.
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Yash Kohli
May 25, 2019 12:00pm
@Ahmed, no one but Indians of all faiths elected BJP to govern India for the next 5-years.
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R. S. Menon
May 25, 2019 12:20pm
While we celebrate the victory of Modiji, anyone thought of what is going through the minds of Vijay Malya, Nirav Modi, his uncle etc.
R.S. Menon, Bangalore
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bhaRAT©
May 25, 2019 01:51pm
@mark,
Very rare to read such truthful realisation.
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