If current counting trends in West Bengal persist, the Bharatiya Janata Party is set to comfortably cross the halfway mark of 147 seats and emerge as the single largest party in West Bengal. This will increase the states governed by the National Democratic Alliance (NDA) to 21.
Meanwhile, the INDIA bloc, the principal opposition alliance at the Centre, has maintained its leadership in six states across the country after potentially losing Tamil Nadu, but gaining Kerala. Even after the decisive performance in Kerala, the election results have put a cloud of uncertainty over the Congress-led alliance’s future prospects.
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While the BJP itself will independently govern 15 states after the West Bengal win, the alliance’s tally is brought up to 21 due to its alliance in Bihar (with JD(U)), Andhra Pradesh (with TDP), Nagaland (with Naga People’s Front), Meghalaya (with National People’s Party).
While the DMK-Congress alliance has been ousted from Tamil Nadu, unseated by a new ‘Jana Nayagan’ Vijay, who leads the Tamila Vettri Kazhagam (TVK), the Congress-led United Democratic Front (UDF), is set to form the government in Kerala.
Following the announcement of results by the Election Commission of India (ECI), the Congress only has a single majority government in three states, Karnataka, Telangana, and Himachal Pradesh. The party is in alliance with the Hemant Soren-led JMM in Jharkhand. Bhagwant Mann-led Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) in Punjab is not part of the INDIA bloc, but has been opposed to the BJP in the Centre too.
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As celebrations started across West Bengal, the BJP workers distributed ‘jhalmuri’ and celebrated at the party office in Kolkata as the party leads on 191 seats as per the Election Commission trends at 2:30 pm.
Currently, with 29 states in the union, the halfway mark is 14.5, as the BJP, with the Bengal win has managed to secure 15 states. — ANI
Bengal: Trinamool: 97
BJP 191
TN: TVK: 105 DMK: 70 AIADMK: 59
Kerala: UDF: 101 LDF 34
