India news today live confirms the election results in India with the opposition party BJP taking a swift lead over the Congress. BJP leader Narendra Modi of Gujarat Stat is slated to be the next Prime Minister.
BBC News described the state of the elections as "India's main opposition BJP has risen like a phoenix from the depths of despair." That is an accurate description of the country wide elections after the BJP wins after third years, with just a little over 116 spots in 2009.
On Friday, the BJP has the 276 independent seats for a single party rule and is suported by more than 300 votes from a multi-party coalition. The scale of the victory is unimaginable since 1984, when no party has had a lead. In 1984, the Congress party won on a 415 seat sympathy vote on the assassination of former Prime Minister Indhira Gandhi, an icon of the India's ruling dynasty and the first Prime Minister of India, Nehru.
Modi grew in popularity after his model of leadership based on a presidential style "reputation as a no-nonsense, can-do leader who stood for development and muscular nationalism."
"This is Mr Modi's victory. A man who was vilified, pilloried and cast as an ogre of India by the English-speaking elite has emerged as the hope of India," says political commentator Swapan Dasgupta .
The elections have also cleared the role of Congress, the outgoing party as India is riddled with poverty, economic problems and lack of opportunity. Against such harsh time, the Gandhi dynasty has failed to curb inflation, curruption and at best experienced a lackluster term with no real progress and no young leaderhsip to take on the finest values of political leadership that Mrs. Gandhi and Rajiv Gandhi envisioned.
Indians may also be tired of established agenda's by Sonia Gandhi, at a time when the Modi win symbolizes a deep desire to stray away from the opportunistic elite of the West, still appearing as remnants in Indian politics.
In the last phase of polling, the media acknowledged the large turnouts in a 9 phase general election. On Monday, 41 seats from key states Uttar Pradesh, Bihar and West Bengal concluded the polling. Counting of votes will continue until 16 May.
National Spokesperson of the Indian National Congress party Sanjay Jha (1.6 percent) told ZeeNews, "Narendra Modi is leading the twitter 'trending candidates' with 45.6 percent, followed by AAP convener Arvind Kejriwal (24.9 percent), Congress vice-president Rahul Gandhi (11.6 percent), journalist-turned-politician, Aam Aadmi Party's spokesperson Ashutosh (2.7 percent), AAP Lok Sabha candidate from Amethi Dr. Kumar Vishwas (2.5 percent),"
"The most 'trending topics' are secularism, transparency in governance, communalism, maoism, janl lokpal and inflation among others," ZeeNews reported.
