UPA WINS ELECTION, MANMOHAN SET TO BE PM

The Congress-led UPA is all set to retain power at the Centre after putting up an impressive performance in states like AP, TN, WB and UP to overwhelm the BJP-led NDA in the Lok Sabha elections 2009. The UPA was ahead in 251 constituencies with Congress alone leading in 201 seats. The ruling Front is just short of a little over 20 seats for the magic figure of 272 in the 543-member Lok Sabha. The NDA was leading in 163 seats with BJP ahead in 122 seats, while the Third Front was leading in 79 seats, Fourth Front was ahead in 24 seats and others in 26 seats. Of the declared results, the UPA has won 152 seats while the NDA has won 102 seats, the Third Front has been reduced to 44 wins, while Fourth Front has won 11 and others 19 seats. Vindication of our policies: Congress The Congress was exultant over its victory saying it was a vindication of its policies. Manmohan Singh will be the first Prime Minister after Jawaharlal Nehru to return to power after a full five-year term with the Congress having nominated him as its candidate for the top post. This is the first time the Congress has done so in its history. The Congress’ performance was spectacular in Kerala where it routed the Left Front and dealt a severe blow to the Marxists in West Bengal with help from ally Trinamool Congress. The stunning story of Lok Sabha Elections 2009 was the superb comeback made by the Congress in Uttar Pradesh. The credit for the turnaround for the grand old party in India’s most populous state will surely be credited to Rahul Gandhi who was the most vocal votary of going it alone in UP so as to build the party from within. The other game changer states were Andhra Pradesh and Tamil Nadu, where the UPA, contrary to expectations, has done exceedingly well. In Tamil Nadu too, the DMK-Congress alliance is emerging triumphant, something that would come as a surprise to all pollsters and not just Jayalalithaa. The Congress also swept Delhi, did exceedingly well in Rajasthan, Haryana, Punjab, Uttarakhand. BJP concedes defeat Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) president Rajnath Singh on Saturday conceded that he had not anticipated his party's poor electoral showing. "The BJP's performance in the results is very unexpected. The success for the NDA that we had hoped for has not materialised. The reasons for this will be discussed later," Rajnath Singh told reporters. However, murmurs have begun in the party against the idea of projecting Narendra Modi as the next in line for being PM after Advani has backfired. State wise results UP - Total seats: 80 In what could be one of the biggest surprises of election 2009, in Uttar Pradesh the SP and the Congress are doing extremely well – SP has won six seats and is leading in 15 seats, while the Congress has won nine and is ahead in 12 seats. The BSP has won nine seats and is ahead in 13 seats. The BJP has won six and is ahead in nine seats.
Rahul Gandhi, as expected, is leading in Amethi as is Sonia Gandhi from Raibareli. BJP president Rajnath Singh has won from Ghaziabad. Mulayam and Kalyan Singh are leading from Mianpuri and Etah respectively. Also, Varun Gandhi is leading from Pilibhit. MM Joshi and Lalji Tandon have won from Varanasi and Lucknow respectively. Bihar - Total seats: 40 In what is coming as extremely bad news for Lalu Prasad Yadav, his party, the RJD is facing a rout in Bihar. The NDA is sweeping the polls in the crucial state that will send 40 MPs to the Parliament. Of the total leads available, the NDA has won eight seats and is ahead in 25 seats while the RJD-led alliance has won just one seat and is ahead in just three seats. It’s a near total clean sweep for the NDA led by Nitish Kumar in the state. Interestingly, the only seat won by RJD includes Saran, where party chief Lalu Prasad Yadav has emerged victorious. He however lost from the Patliputra seat. LJP's Ram Vilas Paswan too has lost from Hajipur, while George Fernandes is trailing from Muzaffarpur. Andhra Pradesh - Total seats: 42 In Andhra Pradesh YS Rajshekhar Reddy is holding fort as per the results. The Congress has won four seats and is ahead in 28 while the TDP-led alliance has won one and is ahead in only 3 seats. New entrant Praja Rajyam Party has won one seat, with party chief Chiranjeevi claiming his maiden election from Tirupati beating his Congress rival and Devasthanams B Karunakar Reddy by a margin of over 10,500 votes. Among other prominent candidates from the state, Union minister Renuka Choudhary lost from Khammam. Delhi - Total seats: 7 The Congress is heading for a cleen sweep here, with the party winning five seats and leading in two. MP - Total seats: 29 Although the BJP has not done as well as expected, it has won 12 seats and is leading in five. The Congress has won eight seats and is ahead in three. In MP, Congress’ Jyotiraditya Scindia has won from Guna, while Union Minister Kamalnath won for the eighth time from the Chhindwara Lok Sabha constituency defeating Marut Rao Khapse of the BJP by a margin of more than 1.30 lakh votes. From the BJP, senior leader Sumitra Mahajan retained Indore Lok Sabha seat by defeating Congress candidate Satya Narayan Patel by a margin of over 11,400 votes. Mahajan has won the seat for the seventh consecutive term. Senior BJP leader Sushma Swaraj has also won from Vidisha. Yashodhara Raje Scindia of the BJP retained the Gwalior seat by defeating Ashok Singh of Congress by over 25,000 votes. Tamil Nadu - Total seats: 39 The other big surprise are the results that are emerging from Tamil Nadu as the DMK led front is doing extremely well there, with it winning 20 seats and leading in 6 seats. The AIADMK has won four seats and is ahead in only five seats. Interestingly, Union Home Minister P Chidambaram won from Shivanganga after a recount. Karnataka - Total seats: 28 As expected the BJP has done well in Karnataka with it winning 16 seats and leading in three others. The Congress is ahead in one seat and has won five. The JD-S is has won only three seats.
Of the prominent candidates from the state, HD Kumaraswamy won from Bangalore South while JD-S supreme HD Deve Gowda claimed victory in Hassan. However, senior Congress leader Margaret Alva has lost from Karwar. Rajasthan - Total seats: 25 In the desert state, the Congress has won 15 seats and is leading in five seats. The BJP has won three and is ahead in only one seat. Congress candidate Sachin pilot won the Ajmer Lok Sabha seat defeating his nearest BJP rival Kiran Maheshwari by a margin of 76,209 votes. Congress candidate and PCC president CP Joshi won the Bhilwara Lok Sabha seat by defeating his BJP rival and sitting MP Vijyendra Pal Singh by 1,35,368 votes. West Bengal - Total seats: 42 The Left has witnessed a rout here in its bastion with the Congress-TMC combine doing extremely well in the state. The Congress-led front has won five seats and is ahead in 20 seats while the Left has won seven seats and is ahead in six seats. TMC chief Mamata Banerjee has won from Kolkata South. Kerala - Total seats: 20 In Kerala too, the LDF has suffered a rout. Here, it has only won four seats. The UDF has emerged as the clear winner in this southern state. It has won 14 seats. Amongst the prominent candidates Shashi Tharoor has won from Thiruvanathapuram. Union Minister of State for External Affairs E Ahamed beat his CPI(M) rival TK Hamsa in Malappuram constituency by over one lakh votes. P Karunakaran (CPI-M) has also won in Kasargode. Assam – Total seats: 14 In Assam, Congress has won two seats and is ahead in four seats while the BJP-led alliance is leading in five seats. Chhattisgarh – Total seats: 11 In this Naxal violence hit state, the BJP has done well as expected. The party is ahead in nine seats while the Congress is leading in two seats. Gujarat – Total seats: 26 In the land of Narendra Modi, BJP has won 11 seats so far and is ahead in 6 others compared to Congress which has won five seats and is leading in four. Among prominent candidates here, BJP’s LK Advani has won from Gandhinagar. Haryana – Total seats: 10 In Haryana, the Congress is heading for a clean sweep with its candidates winning seven seats and leading in two seats over their rivals. Himachal Pradesh – Total seats: 4 The BJP has won three seats in the hilly state. The Congress has won the fourth seat. J&K – Total seats: 6 In Jammu and Kashmir, the Congress and the National Conference (NC) combine have swept the polls with the NC and the Congress winning three and two seats respectively. NC patron Dr Farooq Abdullah has won from Srinagar constituency. Maharashtra – Total seats: 48 The Congress-NCP alliance here put up an impressive performance with it winning 15 seats and leading in 10 others. The BJP-Shiv Sena combine, on the other hand, won 12 seats and is ahead in 8 seats. Among prominent candidates, Congress’ Priya Dutt has won from Mumbai North Central. Also, Milind Deora has won from Mumbai South.
A party or combine needs 272 seats in the 545-member Lok Sabha to form a government. A little over half of the 71.377 crore registered voters cast their ballots through Electronic Voting Machines in the five-phased elections that began on April 16 and ended on May 13. In all, 8,070 candidates, including from 46 national, and state parties, contested in the elections to 543 LS seats. Two members are nominated from Anglo-Indian community.
Zeenews Bureau New Delhi, May 16: The Congress-led UPA is all set to retain power at the Centre after putting up an impressive performance in states like AP, TN, WB and UP to overwhelm the BJP-led NDA in the Lok Sabha elections 2009. The UPA was ahead in 251 constituencies with Congress alone leading in 201 seats. The ruling Front is just short of a little over 20 seats for the magic figure of 272 in the 543-member Lok Sabha. The NDA was leading in 163 seats with BJP ahead in 122 seats, while the Third Front was leading in 79 seats, Fourth Front was ahead in 24 seats and others in 26 seats. Of the declared results, the UPA has won 152 seats while the NDA has won 102 seats, the Third Front has been reduced to 44 wins, while Fourth Front has won 11 and others 19 seats. Vindication of our policies: Congress The Congress was exultant over its victory saying it was a vindication of its policies. Manmohan Singh will be the first Prime Minister after Jawaharlal Nehru to return to power after a full five-year term with the Congress having nominated him as its candidate for the top post. This is the first time the Congress has done so in its history. The Congress’ performance was spectacular in Kerala where it routed the Left Front and dealt a severe blow to the Marxists in West Bengal with help from ally Trinamool Congress. The stunning story of Lok Sabha Elections 2009 was the superb comeback made by the Congress in Uttar Pradesh. The credit for the turnaround for the grand old party in India’s most populous state will surely be credited to Rahul Gandhi who was the most vocal votary of going it alone in UP so as to build the party from within. The other game changer states were Andhra Pradesh and Tamil Nadu, where the UPA, contrary to expectations, has done exceedingly well. In Tamil Nadu too, the DMK-Congress alliance is emerging triumphant, something that would come as a surprise to all pollsters and not just Jayalalithaa. The Congress also swept Delhi, did exceedingly well in Rajasthan, Haryana, Punjab, Uttarakhand. BJP concedes defeat Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) president Rajnath Singh on Saturday conceded that he had not anticipated his party's poor electoral showing. "The BJP's performance in the results is very unexpected. The success for the NDA that we had hoped for has not materialised. The reasons for this will be discussed later," Rajnath Singh told reporters. However, murmurs have begun in the party against the idea of projecting Narendra Modi as the next in line for being PM after Advani has backfired. State wise results UP - Total seats: 80 In what could be one of the biggest surprises of election 2009, in Uttar Pradesh the SP and the Congress are doing extremely well – SP has won six seats and is leading in 15 seats, while the Congress has won nine and is ahead in 12 seats. The BSP has won nine seats and is ahead in 13 seats. The BJP has won six and is ahead in nine seats. Rahul Gandhi, as expected, is leading in Amethi as is Sonia Gandhi from Raibareli. BJP president Rajnath Singh has won from Ghaziabad. Mulayam and Kalyan Singh are leading from Mianpuri and Etah respectively. Also, Varun Gandhi is leading from Pilibhit. MM Joshi and Lalji Tandon have won from Varanasi and Lucknow respectively. Bihar - Total seats: 40 In what is coming as extremely bad news for Lalu Prasad Yadav, his party, the RJD is facing a rout in Bihar. The NDA is sweeping the polls in the crucial state that will send 40 MPs to the Parliament. Of the total leads available, the NDA has won eight seats and is ahead in 25 seats while the RJD-led alliance has won just one seat and is ahead in just three seats. It’s a near total clean sweep for the NDA led by Nitish Kumar in the state. Interestingly, the only seat won by RJD includes Saran, where party chief Lalu Prasad Yadav has emerged victorious. He however lost from the Patliputra seat. LJP's Ram Vilas Paswan too has lost from Hajipur, while George Fernandes is trailing from Muzaffarpur. Andhra Pradesh - Total seats: 42 In Andhra Pradesh YS Rajshekhar Reddy is holding fort as per the results. The Congress has won four seats and is ahead in 28 while the TDP-led alliance has won one and is ahead in only 3 seats. New entrant Praja Rajyam Party has won one seat, with party chief Chiranjeevi claiming his maiden election from Tirupati beating his Congress rival and Devasthanams B Karunakar Reddy by a margin of over 10,500 votes. Among other prominent candidates from the state, Union minister Renuka Choudhary lost from Khammam. Delhi - Total seats: 7 The Congress is heading for a cleen sweep here, with the party winning five seats and leading in two. MP - Total seats: 29 Although the BJP has not done as well as expected, it has won 12 seats and is leading in five. The Congress has won eight seats and is ahead in three. In MP, Congress’ Jyotiraditya Scindia has won from Guna, while Union Minister Kamalnath won for the eighth time from the Chhindwara Lok Sabha constituency defeating Marut Rao Khapse of the BJP by a margin of more than 1.30 lakh votes. From the BJP, senior leader Sumitra Mahajan retained Indore Lok Sabha seat by defeating Congress candidate Satya Narayan Patel by a margin of over 11,400 votes. Mahajan has won the seat for the seventh consecutive term. Senior BJP leader Sushma Swaraj has also won from Vidisha. Yashodhara Raje Scindia of the BJP retained the Gwalior seat by defeating Ashok Singh of Congress by over 25,000 votes. Tamil Nadu - Total seats: 39 The other big surprise are the results that are emerging from Tamil Nadu as the DMK led front is doing extremely well there, with it winning 20 seats and leading in 6 seats. The AIADMK has won four seats and is ahead in only five seats. Interestingly, Union Home Minister P Chidambaram won from Shivanganga after a recount. Karnataka - Total seats: 28 As expected the BJP has done well in Karnataka with it winning 16 seats and leading in three others. The Congress is ahead in one seat and has won five. The JD-S is has won only three seats. Of the prominent candidates from the state, HD Kumaraswamy won from Bangalore South while JD-S supreme HD Deve Gowda claimed victory in Hassan. However, senior Congress leader Margaret Alva has lost from Karwar. Rajasthan - Total seats: 25 In the desert state, the Congress has won 15 seats and is leading in five seats. The BJP has won three and is ahead in only one seat. Congress candidate Sachin pilot won the Ajmer Lok Sabha seat defeating his nearest BJP rival Kiran Maheshwari by a margin of 76,209 votes. Congress candidate and PCC president CP Joshi won the Bhilwara Lok Sabha seat by defeating his BJP rival and sitting MP Vijyendra Pal Singh by 1,35,368 votes. West Bengal - Total seats: 42 The Left has witnessed a rout here in its bastion with the Congress-TMC combine doing extremely well in the state. The Congress-led front has won five seats and is ahead in 20 seats while the Left has won seven seats and is ahead in six seats. TMC chief Mamata Banerjee has won from Kolkata South. Kerala - Total seats: 20 In Kerala too, the LDF has suffered a rout. Here, it has only won four seats. The UDF has emerged as the clear winner in this southern state. It has won 14 seats. Amongst the prominent candidates Shashi Tharoor has won from Thiruvanathapuram. Union Minister of State for External Affairs E Ahamed beat his CPI(M) rival TK Hamsa in Malappuram constituency by over one lakh votes. P Karunakaran (CPI-M) has also won in Kasargode. Assam – Total seats: 14 In Assam, Congress has won two seats and is ahead in four seats while the BJP-led alliance is leading in five seats. Chhattisgarh – Total seats: 11 In this Naxal violence hit state, the BJP has done well as expected. The party is ahead in nine seats while the Congress is leading in two seats. Gujarat – Total seats: 26 In the land of Narendra Modi, BJP has won 11 seats so far and is ahead in 6 others compared to Congress which has won five seats and is leading in four. Among prominent candidates here, BJP’s LK Advani has won from Gandhinagar. Haryana – Total seats: 10 In Haryana, the Congress is heading for a clean sweep with its candidates winning seven seats and leading in two seats over their rivals. Himachal Pradesh – Total seats: 4 The BJP has won three seats in the hilly state. The Congress has won the fourth seat. J&K – Total seats: 6 In Jammu and Kashmir, the Congress and the National Conference (NC) combine have swept the polls with the NC and the Congress winning three and two seats respectively. NC patron Dr Farooq Abdullah has won from Srinagar constituency. Maharashtra – Total seats: 48 The Congress-NCP alliance here put up an impressive performance with it winning 15 seats and leading in 10 others. The BJP-Shiv Sena combine, on the other hand, won 12 seats and is ahead in 8 seats. Among prominent candidates, Congress’ Priya Dutt has won from Mumbai North Central. Also, Milind Deora has won from Mumbai South. A party or combine needs 272 seats in the 545-member Lok Sabha to form a government. A little over half of the 71.377 crore registered voters cast their ballots through Electronic Voting Machines in the five-phased elections that began on April 16 and ended on May 13. In all, 8,070 candidates, including from 46 national, and state parties, contested in the elections to 543 LS seats. Two members are nominated from Anglo-Indian community.