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New Delhi: The results that came on Tuesday have been surprising for the BJP, which won the 2024 Lok Sabha elections with a huge majority for the third time in a row with the slogan of '400 Paar' with issues like Ram Mandir, Modi wave, Hindutva, developed India. Prime Minister Narendra Modi will have to depend on a coalition government for the first time in his political career, as the BJP is losing its hold in the Hindi belt. This election has raised questions on the popularity of PM Modi. The BJP, which won 303 seats on its own in 2019 after a huge victory in three states of the Hindi belt in November last year, failed to cross the 250 mark this time, due to which the NDA had to shrink to 291 seats. Although Tuesday's results confirmed the hat-trick of the NDA government, it also became clear that the BJP has not got a majority.
With the unprecedented popularity of Prime Minister Narendra Modi in the country and abroad, the BJP, which was expected to win more than 400 seats, has become the only party to win the most seats by winning 240 seats in the 543-seat Lok Sabha. seats. However, the BJP, which had a clean sweep in nine states in 2019, this time was able to clean sweep only in five states – Madhya Pradesh (29 seats), Delhi (7 seats), Uttarakhand (5 seats), Himachal Pradesh (4 seats) and Tripura (2 seats). However, the party has lost the chance of a clean sweep for the third consecutive year in Gujarat and Rajasthan, which are considered BJP strongholds. The BJP has lost 0.73 percent vote share this time compared to 2019 and has lost 63 seats.
Despite the BJP losing majority, the NDA is certain to secure a hat-trick of power, with BJP's key allies, Chandrababu Naidu's TDP winning 16 seats and Nitish Kumar's JD-U winning 12 seats. The TDP has also returned to power in the state by winning 16 seats in the Lok Sabha and 135 seats in the 175-member assembly. 73-year-old Prime Minister Narendra Modi will have to form a coalition government with the TDP and JD-U for the first time. Despite the defeat of the BJP in the Lok Sabha, the relief for it is that Naveen Patnaik is forming a government in the state for the first time after ousting it in Odisha. Along with the assembly in Odisha, the BJP also won a landslide victory in the Lok Sabha, winning 19 out of 21 seats. Thus, the BJP has gained in Odisha and Andhra Pradesh in the south as compared to losses in the north.
Uttar Pradesh, which played a key role in BJP's victory by securing an unprecedented majority in the 2014 and 2019 elections, has played a key role in defeating the party this time. In Uttar Pradesh, which has the highest number of 80 seats in the country, BJP was reduced to 33 seats, while it won 72 seats in 2014 and 62 seats in 2019. However, this time the main opposition Samajwadi Party has emerged as the largest party in the state with a maximum of 37 seats.
After BJP's retreat, the opposition has become stronger in the country. The Congress-led All India Alliance has won 234 seats, in which Congress has emerged as the largest party with 99 seats. The opposition alliance has become stronger with the support of Akhilesh Yadav's SP, Trinamool Congress (29) in Bengal and DMK (22) in Tamil Nadu. Uttar Pradesh, Maharashtra and West Bengal have played an important role in preventing BJP from crossing the 272 mark on its own.
