With 100 Seats, Congress Set For Biggest Tally Since 2014

New Delhi: 

The Congress is on course to win 100 Lok Sabha seats – after winning just 44 in 2014 and 52 in the 2019 election. In 2009 the party – then heading the United Progressive Alliance – won 206 seats.

At 9.30 pm the Congress was ahead in 100 seats and the party-led INDIA bloc – set up in June 2023 to beat Prime Minister Narendra Modi and his BJP-led National Democratic Alliance – was ahead in 232. 

The NDA was leading in 292 seats; the ruling party had quickly surged past the halfway mark of 272 in early leads as counting began (starting with postal ballots) but slowed down as the hours went by.

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Prime Minister Modi, therefore, is set for a historic third term, but the BJP’s hope of crossing the 400-seat mark – something only the Congress has done – has hit an INDIA wall.