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00:00 / 00:00 Video player from: TimesOfIndia ( Privacy Policy ) (Provided by The Times of India) Byoued by the Lok Sabha election results, Prime Minister Narendra Modi and BJP chief Amit Shah thanked the people of the country and congratulated the party workers for the landslide victory. As per the latest data from the Election Commission, the BJP has won 74 seats and is leading in 227 seats while the Congress is trailing far behind with 51. Live: Lok Sabha results 2019 Amid chants of ‘Modi-Modi,’ the prime minister said the results have "unmasked" the faces of political parties who wore the masks of secularism. Adding that it was a long journey from "do (two parliaments) to dobara (second term)," Narendra Modi called it a "victory of democracy." " This is not the victory of Modi but the victory of citizens desperate for honesty in governance. People who have played in the name of caste fo...

Only a few hours are left before the final counting of votes begins, and people will know which party will rule the country for the next five years. The fate of over 8,000 candidates in a total of 542 parliamentary constituencies will be revealed after the counting of votes begins sharply at 8 AM on Thursday. Initial trends will start coming in around 11 AM but a clear picture about winners and losers will be clear only by late afternoon. As per experts, the final results may be announced late evening and can be delayed even further due to a strenuous process of VVPAT counting with EVMs. Full Coverage: Elections 2019 This Lok Sabha election 2019 is the first parliamentary election in which 5 VVPAT (voter verified paper audit trail) machines per Assembly constituency will be matched with EVMs to ensure fair counting process. In the General Elections of 2014, the EC used VVPATs for a pilot run in eight out of 543 Lok Sabha constituencies, but no tallying was done. This time it wi...

When the lights dim at around 9:30 pm US central time (8 am, Thursday in India), the audience at a cinema hall Minneapolis, Minnesota state, will be hit with six to eight news channels airing election results from India, all together on one screen. Full Coverage: Elections 2019 That’s the plan, according to Ramesh Noone, an IT professional and a supporter of Prime Minister Narendra Modi. He has organised what is being touted as America’s first cinema-hall watch party for an Indian election. An estimated 150 people have already purchased tickets — at $15 a piece — but Noone said he expected more people to “walk in” going by the response he has received to flyers he sent out just a few days ago — “they went viral”. Election results watch parties are taking place in Texas, Illinois, Massachusetts, Florida, Washington DC, Virginia, California and other states, mostly with large populations of Indian Americans. Many of them have been organised mostly by the Overseas Friends of B...

Days after the last vote was cast on May 19 for Lok Sabha elections, a high-level Opposition delegation met the Election Commission on Tuesday expressing concerns over alleged tampering with the Electronic Voting Machines (EVMs) even as protests were held in some states. The EC, however, dismissed all reports of EVMs being manipulated saying that all EVMs and voter verified paper audit trail machines (VVPAT) were sealed properly and stored in guarded strong rooms. Full Coverage: Elections 2019 Nearly four million EVMs were used in the Lok Sabha election this year as millions of voters cast their ballot during the five-week long process. Here’s a look at what happens to the EVMs after the last vote is cast: * The EVMs are sealed immediately after polling for the day ends and polling agents put their signatures on the seal. * Guarded by central paramilitary forces, EVMs are then taken to strongrooms and kept there until the day of counting of votes. This year, vehicles ca...

At present, the exit poll figures reflect that the reign of the world's biggest democracy might once again fall back into the hands of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) led National Democratic Alliance (NDA). Although the South holds a dim picture for the party, India Today-Axis My India exit poll has revealed that out of the total 542 Lok Sabha seats, Prime Minister Narendra Modi's party will comfortably win 339-365 seats. Elections 2019: Full coverage The numbers, however, predict a crisis for the Congress-led United Progressive Alliance (UPA) which may grab only 70 seats. Even the alliance of all the other parties may not win more than a total of 133 Lok Sabha seats. As the predictions give a boost to the BJP's 'Abki baar, 300 paar' claim, most of the opposition leaders have ridiculed the polls and believe that the exit poll figures are making erroneous claims. Here's how the leaders reacted on exit polls numbers. Mamata Banerjee West Bengal chie...