All roads lead to Delhi as parties await Lok Sabha election results

Employees make sweets on the eve of Lok Sabha election ends in Bikaner | Photograph: PTI

With most exit polls projecting a win for the Bharatiya Janata Occasion-led (BJP-led) Nationwide Democratic Alliance, the social gathering has deliberate victory celebrations on Tuesday night with Prime Minister Narendra Modi more likely to handle social gathering staff on the social gathering’s nationwide headquarters right here. A highway present can be within the works.

Nevertheless, the leaders of the Opposition INDIA bloc, who’ve rejected the exit polls projections, are set to satisfy both on Tuesday night or Wednesday morning within the capital to determine on their plan of action.

“INDIA leaders will meet after the outcomes are declared,” Congress Normal Secretary Jairam Ramesh mentioned in a publish on X and rejected experiences that Opposition events would maintain protests if the ballot outcomes went towards them. Opposition leaders have asserted that the INDIA bloc is coming to energy on the Centre with greater than 295 of the 543 Lok Sabha seats.

On Monday, BJP leaders, together with Union ministers Amit Shah and Rajnath Singh and social gathering’s Nationwide President J P Nadda, met to evaluate the BJP’s inside evaluation of the outcomes.

Tawde mentioned there was no dialogue on the victory celebrations on the assembly. “There is no such thing as a such dialogue on this at current. We’ll look into this solely after seeing the developments, not on the premise of the exit polls’ projections,” he mentioned.

Nevertheless, the BJP’s nationwide headquarters extension was being ready for the opportunity of the Prime Minister addressing social gathering staff. Modi addressed social gathering staff after the BJP’s 2019 win and has carried out so after the outcomes of the BJP’s victories in key Meeting polls. Tents have been put up on the BJP workplace to offer shade to social gathering staff more likely to collect there on Tuesday, which is predicted to be a scorching day.

BJP sources mentioned social gathering staff in Delhi and Haryana had been requested to converge on the social gathering headquarters on Tuesday night.

Nitish Kumar meets PM

Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar met Modi within the nationwide capital on Monday. The assembly got here on the day his social gathering, the Janata Dal (United), an ally of the BJP in Bihar, demanded early Meeting polls within the state.

Bihar is scheduled for Meeting polls in October subsequent 12 months. The Janata Dal (United) management, nevertheless, mentioned the demand had nothing to do with Kumar’s Delhi go to, however was according to the Centre’s efforts at heralding the “one nation, one election” pitch. The Janata Dal (United) needs the Bihar Meeting polls to be held together with these in Jharkhand, that are scheduled for later this 12 months.

First Printed: Jun 03 2024 | 10:54 PM IST