India Election Results 2024 Live Updates: Will The BJP-Led NDA Be Thrice Lucky?

All eyes are now on the counting of votes of the Lok Sabha 2024 elections and the air is heavy with the question –Can the NDA pull out a hat trick of the INDIA alliance to spring up a surprise! The counting of the votes will start at 08.30 IST and we will keep you updated with every tit bit of information of value.

The Narendra Modi led NDA will script history if it is able to pull off a hat trick and retain power. However the Opposition is upbeat and predicts that the people of India want a change. All major exit polls are predicting a NDA victory and the BJP is expected to better its tally of 303 seats which it won in the 2019 elections. Different exit polls conducted by various agencies have predicted NDA receiving a majority.

• India-Today-My Axis poll and Today’s Chanakya projected the NDA tally to be over 400 seats
• ABP-CVoter gave them 353-383 seats
• Jan Ki Baat estimated the ruling alliance may win between 362 seats and 392 seats.
• News18 Mega Exit Poll suggested that the BJP could win a majority with 305 to 315 seats and Congress might win over 62-72 seats.

However exit polls have gone wrong in the past. For example in 2019 did not gauge the Modi wave and the NDA obtained 353 seats with the BJP alone obtaining a clear majority of 303 seats.

Here are the key constituencies which feature many bigWigs from both the INDIA and the NDA factions-

Varanasi-PM Modi Locked In A Six Cornered Fight

PM Modi’s constituency went for polls in the last and seventh phase of the Lok Sabha 2024 elections. PM Modi is standing from the Varanasi constituency for the third consecutive time. He was elected from Varanasi constituency in 2014 and 2019.

He is pitted against Uttar Pradesh Congress chief and a seasoned politician with roots in the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS), Ajay Rai.

Rahul Gandhi Is Standing From Two Constituencies- Wayanad and Raebareli.

Rahul Gandhi , the sitting MP from Wayanad will also contest from the Rae Bareli constituency for the Lok Sabha 2024 elections. In Wayanad he will be pitted against BJP state president K Surendran and CPI leader Annie Raja in Wayanad while his opposition candidate in Raebareli is Bharatiya Janata Party’s Dinesh Pratap Singh.

Highway Man Nitin Gadkari Vs Vikas Thakre In Nagpur

BJP candidate and Union Minister Nitin Gadkari is pitted against Congress’s Vikas Thakre in Maharashtra’s Nagpur Lok Sabha seat in the 2024 Lok Sabha election. Nitin has been the sitting MP from Nagpur constituency for two terms in succession and is standing for the third time

Amit Shah To Contest From Gandhinagar

Home Minister Amit Shah will contest from his home state capital Gandhinagar and he will lock horns with Congress’ Sonal Patel, the former women’s wing’s chairperson of the Gujarat Congress.

AIMIM Chief Asaduddin Owaisi Against BJP’s Madhavi Latha In Hyderabad

The Hyderabad Lok Sabha seat with its large Muslim population is witnessing a keen contest between All India Majlis-e-Ittehadul Muslimeen (AIMIM) chief Asaduddin Owaisi and the Bharatiya Janata Party’s Sanatan Dharma proponent Madhavi Latha.

Smriti Irani Locks Horns With KL Sharma In Amethi

A prestigious seat for both Congress and BJP, it has been a traditional stronghold of the Congress Gandhi family but was wrested by Smriti Irani in 2019. KL Sharma is a political lightweight but is a Gandhi family loyalist.

Shashi Tharoor Pitted Against Rajeev Chandrasekhar In Thiruvananthapuram

The Thiruvananthapuram constituency sitting MP Shashi Tharoor will lock horns with Union minister Rajeev Chandrasekhar and CPI candidate Panniyan Raveendran. CPI and Congress are in an alliance in INDIA across the country but in Kerala, they are contesting against each other.

Akhilesh Yadav Pitted Against BJP’S Subrat Pathak In UP’S Kannauj

Samajwadi Party (SP) chief and former Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Akhilesh Yadav is locked in a contest with BJP candidate and the sitting MP Subrat Pathak in the Kannauj Lok Sabha seat.The seat has been a traditional bastion of the Samajwadi Party and was also the stronghold of former UP CM Mulayam Singh Yadav.

Manoj Tiwari Locks Horns With Kanhaiya Kumar In North-East Delhi

BJP MP Manoj Tiwari is pitted against Congress’ Kanhaiya Kumar from North-East Delhi seat. Both the candidates hail from Bihar with Manoj Tiwari being a prominent Bhojpuri Films star while Kanhaiya Kumar was the JNU President and gained notoriety for opposing CAA and supporting hanged Afzal Guru for his involvement in the Parliament attack.

HD Kumaraswamy Against Venkataramana Gowda In Karnataka’s Mandya

The prestigious Mandya seat in Karnataka will see a keen contest between JD(S) heavyweight and former CM HD Kumaraswamy and Congress candidate Venkataramane Gowda. The seat has been a traditional Congress stronghold and in Karnataka caste politics rule the roost with the Vokkaliga community, comprising over 50 percent voters in the constituency.

BJP’s Kangana Ranaut Lock Horns With Congress’s Vikramaditya Singh

The Mandi seat has been a traditional Congress stronghold and the late Congress heavyweight Virbhadra Singh represented it thrice, and Pratibha Singh winning three times including two by-polls. However this time the BJP has pitched Bollywood starlet Kangana Ranaut against Congress’s Vikramaditya Singh

Annamalai Vs DMK’s Ganapaty Rajkumar

BJP’s firebrand leader and state unit chief K Annamalai again gave a tough fight to DMK candidate and former city Mayor P Ganapaty Rajkumar, and Singai G Ramachandran of the AIADMK in Coimbatore.

Mahua Moitra Pitted Against  Rani Ma From Bengal’s Krishnanagar

Krishnanagar will see a keen contest between Mahua Moitra who was the ex-MP from Krishnanagar against BJP’s “Rani Ma”, Amrita Roy. The runup to the elections saw ugly spats between Moitra and BJP with the former accusing Roy’s family to have sided with the British to defeat the Nawab of the erstwhile state. “Rani Ma”, Amrita Roy is the wife of the descendant of Raja Krishna Chandra Roy, on whom the town was named.

Arvind Sawant Vs Jamini Yadav From Mumbai South Lok Sabha Constituency

Mumbai South Lok Sabha Constituency is seeing a keen fight between Shinde’s Shiv Sena and Uddhav Thackeray-led Sena. The former has fielded Byculla MLA Yamini Jadhav while the latter has fielded Arvind Sawant who is being fielded for the third term by Uddhav Thackeray-led Sena.

Ujjwal Nikam Against Varsha Gaikwad From Mumbai North-Central

Advocate Ujjwal Nikam , the prosecutor in the 1993 Bomb Blast Case and Mumbai attacks is pitted against Varsha Gaikwad. It was a surprise move by BJP to put forth Nikam and replace two-time sitting MP Poonam Mahajan, the daughter of late BJP leader Pramod Mahajan.