2024 Election Results: INDIA Bloc To Sit In Opposition; Stalin Meets NDA Ally Chandrababu Naidu

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Prime Minister Modi has invited the King of Bhutan, the President of Sri Lanka, the Prime Ministers of Nepal, Bangladesh and Mauritius for his swearing-in ceremony.

Tamil Nadu CM MK Stalin and TDP chief and NDA ally Chandrababu Naidu meet at the airport while leaving Delhi.

Prime Minister Narendra Modi took to his official X account on Wednesday and said, “Met our valued NDA partners. Ours is an alliance that will further national progress and fulfil regional aspirations. We will serve the 140 crore people of India and work towards building a Viksit Bharat.”

Taking to X, TDP President Chandrababu Naidu said that all NDA partners unanimously endorsed PM Modi as their coalition leader.

The INDIA bloc leaders issued a joint statement on Wednesday which said, “The constituents of the India bloc thank the people of India for the overwhelming support received by our alliance. The people’s mandate has given a befitting reply to the BJP and their politics of hate, corruption and deprivation. This is a political and moral defeat of Prime Minister Narendra Modi.”

The statement further said that this is a mandate in defence of the Constitution of India and against price rise, unemployment and crony capitalism of the Modi Government.

“The India bloc will continue to fight against the fascist rule of the BJP led by Sh. Modi. We will take appropriate steps at the appropriate time to realise the people’s desire not to be ruled by the BJP’s government,” the statement added.

Leaders of the INDIA alliance including Rahul Gandhi, Tejashwi Yadav, Raghav Chadha, Sharad Pawar, D Raja, Sanjay Raut, Akhilesh Yadav, Champai Soren, Supriya Sule and others after their meeting at the residence of Congress president Mallikarjun Kharge in Delhi.

Congress president Mallikarjun Kharge said “The INDIA bloc will continue to fight against the fascist rule of the BJP led by PM Modi. We will take the appropriate steps at the appropriate time to realise the people’s desire not to be ruled by the BJP’s govt.”

As per sources, the INDIA alliance has expressed that they have no attempts to form a government and that they will sit in the opposition.

PM Modi said at the NDA meeting that the third consecutive government was a historic mandate as it was last received in India 60 years back.

In an exclusive conversation with CNN News18, Maharashtra CM Eknath Shinde said, “PM Modi has worked for the country for past 10 years and has strenghtened the country. He will take our economy to the 3rd position.”

He further said, “BJP and Shiv Sena has same ideology…Nitish Ji and Naidu ji are also with us.”

The INDIA Bloc meeting is currently underway.

In the NDA meeting, some leaders including Nitish Kumar and Chandrababu Naidu advised to form the government without much delay

The leaders further requested the Prime Minister to take out the auspicious day and time at the earliest.

At the INDIA alliance leaders’ meeting in Delhi, Congress President Mallikarjun Kharge said, “We fought well, fought unitedly, fought resolutely. The INDIA Alliance welcomes all parties which share its fundamental commitment to the values enshrined in the Preamble to our Constitution and to its many provisions for economic, social and political justice. The mandate is decisively against PM Modi, against him and the substance and style of his politics. It is a huge political loss for him personally apart from being a clear moral defeat as well. However, he is determined to subvert the will of the people.”

TMC leader Abhishek Banerjee arrived at Congress president Mallikarjun Kharge’s residence in Delhi for INDIA bloc meeting.

“The NDA meeting was chaired at the PM’s residence, which was also attended by CM (Nitish Kumar). Everyone put forth their views and thanked the public for this mandate to the NDA for a third time. The government under the leadership of Narendra Modi will soon be formed, and very soon a meeting of all the MPs will take place,” said JD(U) MP Sanjay Kumar Jha.

Samajwadi Party chief Akhilesh Yadav reached the national capital ahead of the INDIA meet.

Of the 45,554 ‘None of the Above’ (NOTA) votes cast in the seven city seats in the Lok Sabha elections, the North-West Delhi constituency recorded the highest number of such votes at 8,984, the Election Commission data shows.

In the constituency, BJP’s Yogender Chandoliya won by a margin of 2,90,849 votes against Congress’ Udit Raj.

This election, however, saw a negligible dip in the total number of NOTA votes to 45,554 from 45,629 in 2019.

A poster is put up in Patna congratulating Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar for NDA’s victory in the Lok Sabha elections 2024.