Union Minister and BJP candidate from Thiruvananthapuram Lok Sabha constituency in Kerala Rajeev Chandrashekhar on Tuesday expressed his disappointment that he was not able to win the constituency, where Congress leader Shashi Tharoor registered a fourth consecutive win.

He, however, said that his commitment to the people of Thiruvananthapuram will remain steadfast.

"It is disappointing given that we worked very hard. We ran a very positive campaign. 3.4 lakh people supported us which is a record number. I believe we are on the right track," Mr Chandrashekhar told ANI.

"I am disappointed that I could not win. My commitment to Thiruvananthapuram and the people of Thiruvananthapuram remains steadfast," he added.

Suspended Hassan JD(S) MP Prajwal Revanna, who is facing charges of sexually abusing several women, lost the Lok Sabha elections to Shreyas M Patel of the Congress by 42,549 votes on Tuesday.

Patel secured 6,72,988 votes and Revanna 6,30,339.

The 33-year-old Revanna, who is the grandson of former prime minister and JD(S) supremo H D Deve Gowda, was the only one from JD(S) to win the 2019 Lok Sabha elections in Karnataka.

BJP National Yuva Morcha President Tejasvi Surya has registered a thumping victory from the Bengaluru South Parliamentary segment against the Congress candidate Sowmya Reddy. Mr Surya secured 7.50 lakh votes and emerged victorious with a margin of 2.77 lakh votes.

Sowmya Reddy secured 4.73 lakh votes. Bengaluru South is considered as a safe BJP pocket and the BJP has never lost from here since 1991.

Former Karnataka Chief Minister Basavaraj Bommai and H D Kumaraswamy, Union Minister Pralhad Joshi, and Congress President Mallikarjun Kharge's son-in-law Radhakrishna Doddamani are among those who have won the Lok Sabha polls in Karnataka for which counting was taken up on Tuesday.
Suspended JD(S) leader and MP Prajwal Revanna, who is facing charges of sexually abusing several women, and Deputy Chief Minister DK Shivakumar's brother and MP DK Suresh lost the polls.

Andhra Pradesh chief Minister YS Jagan Mohan Reddy said he failed to understand the reason for YSR Congress party’s debacle in the assembly polls despite implementing several welfare measures "without any trace of corruption".
“I am ready to face the challenges. All the very best to the people (parties) who came to the government (came to power),” he said.

A third term for Prime Minister Narendra Modi appears certain with the NDA hovering around the 300 mark. But the day belongs to the resurgent Opposition, which performed way over the modest expectations raised by exit polls.

The scion of the erstwhile Mysuru royal family who contested the Lok Sabha election on a BJP ticket from the Mysuru-Kodagu segment has emerged victorious on his maiden attempt.
Yaduveer Wadiyar has secured 7.95 lakh votes and defeated the nearest rival the Congress candidate M Lakshmana by 1.39 lakh votes.

Congress leader Rahul Gandhi has won from Kerala's Wayanad. He's also leading by over 3 lakh votes from Raebareli in Uttar Pradesh.

When asked which of the two constituencies will he hold on to, Mr Gandhi said that he hasn't decided yet and will take a call after discussions with party leaders.

From 'pappu' to 'shehzade', Congress leader Rahul Gandhi has been the prime target of BJP's ridicule for years.

The BJP inched closer to realising its dream of getting an elected MP from Kerala, with actor-politician Suresh Gopi ensuring a virtually unassailable lead of over 74,000 votes in the Thrissur parliamentary segment.
Mr Gopi's win would put an end to the over seven decades-long political drought in Kerala for the BJP.

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TDP supremo N Chandrababu Naidu on Tuesday congratulated Prime Minister Narendra Modi and his cabinet colleague Amit Shah over the the NDA's impending victory in the Lok Sabha polls.
PM Modi and Amit Shah in return congratulated Chandrababu Naidu on the grand victory of the NDA alliance in Andhra Pradesh, TDP sources said.

The BJP is drawing a blank (so far) in the race for the 39 Lok Sabha seats in Tamil Nadu - a state in which it usually struggles and has won only one seat in the past two polls. Its sole win came in 2014 when Pon Radhakrishnan claimed Kanniyakumari. By 2019 its vote share dropped to 3.66 per cent.

With a staggering lead of 72,000 votes, BJP candidate Suresh Gopi is on the brink of victory in Thrissur, marking a significant milestone for the party in Kerala. The emergence of the 'lotus' symbolizes a potential shift in the state's political landscape, sparking curiosity about the BJP's prospects in securing another seat in Thiruvananthapuram.
Celebrating his imminent triumph, Mr Gopi was captured at his residence alongside his wife Radhika, exchanging sweet gestures. However, he refrained from addressing the media, opting to depart shortly after the photo session.
Kerala, comprising 20 Lok Sabha seats, witnessed the Congress-led UDF securing victory in 19 seats during the 2019 elections, while the CPI-M-led Left clinched one. The BJP's performance, relegated to the second position in Thiruvananthapuram, underscored its growing presence in the state's political arena.

Celebrations broke out at Telugu Desam Party offices across Andhra Pradesh today as the party, along with its pre-poll partners Janasena and BJP, is heading towards obtaining a bumper majority to form the government.
According to the latest figures from the Election Commission, TDP won in one assembly seat and is leading in 130 segments while Janasena is leading in 19 and BJP in 7.

Jagan Mohan Reddy will resign as Andhra Pradesh Chief Minister at 4 pm as Chandrababu Naidu's TDP secures a majority in the Assembly elections. Mr Naidu will take oath as Chief Minister on June 9.

The BJP has focused on the southern states - Tamil Nadu, Kerala, Andhra Pradesh, Telangana, and Karnataka - in an effort to make up seats in its race to win 370 seats (on its own) and amass 400 seats with NDA partners.

Union Minister Pralhad Joshi registered a thumping win against Congress candidate Vinod Asuti from Karnataka's Dharwad. Mr Joshi won by 85,479 votes against Mr Asuti, who is contesting a Lok Sabha election for the first time.

Tejasvi Surya, BJP's Bengaluru South candidate, said the latest trends by the Election Commission on 542 Lok Sabha seats showing that the National Democratic Alliance (NDA) crossed the halfway mark as a "historic electoral mandate".
Hitting out at the opposition, Mr Surya said that the people of the country have rejected the freebie politics.

K Chandrasekhar Rao, the father of the statehood movement in Telangana, who ruled the state since its inception in 2014, is on his way out. His party, the Bharat Rashtra Samithi or BRS, is not within hailing distance of even one of the state's 17 parliamentary seats in the Lok Sabha Election, the votes of which are being counted today.

CPI  (M)'s K Radhakrishnan wins the Alathur Lok Sabha seat in Kerala by 8,306 votes, the first result of the 2024 elections.

Chandrababu Naidu will take oath as the Andhra Pradesh Chief Minister on June 9 in Amravati, his party leaders announced. His party Telugu Desam Party (TDP) is ahead on 157 out of the 175 assembly seats in the state.

In Tamil Nadu, The DMK and allies are currently leading in 34 of the 39 Lok Sabha seats in the state. The main opposition party, AIADMK is leading in just two seats (Namakkal--S Tamilmani and Kallakurichi--R Kumaraguru) and BJP's ally PMK (Sowmiya Anbumani) is ahead in Dharmapuri. IAS officer-turned-politician Sasikanth Senthil (Congress) is leading in Tiruvallur.

Indian stock markets crashed by over 4,000 points today, after a sharp rally in the previous session, as early vote-counting trends showed Prime Minister Narendra Modi's Bharatiya Janata Party-led alliance leading in more than 272 seats, but the extent of the victory was not clear and its lead narrower than what exit polls had predicted.

Union Minister and Telangana state president G Kishan Reddy was leading by 37,558 votes against his nearest Congress rival Danam Nagender at 11.50 am in Secunderabad Lok Sabha constituency.
Kishan Reddy got 2,05,354 votes, while Nagender secured 1,67,796 votes, according to the Election Commission website.

Even the emergence of the tapes where Prajwal Revanna is allegedly seen sexually assaulting several women has not prevented him from leading in the Hassan Lok Sabha constituency - where he is the sitting MP - early trends suggest.
As of 11.30 am, the Janata Dal Secular leader is ahead of his closest competitor, Shreyas Patel of the Congress, by close to 4,700 votes.

Indian shares crashed by over 5 per cent as the initial Lok Sabha results showed a narrower margin for the ruling BJP than what the exit polls had predicted. The Sensex was down by over 3,700 points at 11.25 am.

The Telugu Desam Party (TDP) is ahead in 15 Lok Sabha seats, its NDA partners-BJP in three and Janasena in two segments out of the total 25, as per the early trends put out by the Election Commission.

Senior Congress leader Shashi Tharoor faces a challenge from the BJP's Rajeev Chandrasekhar in the fight for Kerala's Thiruvananthapuram seat, which he has held since 2009.

The ruling NDA, led by Prime Minister Narendra Modi, is leading on 300 seats, while the INDIA alliance is ahead on 208. A party or alliance needs to win more than 272 seats to form the government.

The Thiruvananthapuram Lok Sabha seat is witnessing a neck-and-neck fight between Congress' Shashi Tharoor and Union Minister of State for Information Technology Rajeev Chandrasekhar as votes for the constituency are counted. Both the candidates kept switching the lead between them with small margins during the initial hours of counting.

The BJP is currently leading in nine of the 17 Lok Sabha seats in Telangana, while the ruling Congress is ahead on four.

JD(S) MP Prajwal Revanna, arrested in a sex scandal,is trailing from Hassan Lok Sabha seat in Karnataka. Congress candidate Shreyas M Patel has taken a lead, as per early trends.
Revanna's lawyer had made a special request for the court to provide him with a television set to watch the election results.

Initial trends hint at the ruling DMK and its allies winning the lion's share of Tamil Nadu's 39 Lok Sabha seats with main opposition AIADMK and the BJP putting up a good fight in a number of segments.
Chief Minister M K Stalin-led party's star candidates Kanimozhi (Thoothukudi), T R Baalu (Sriperumbudur), Dayanidhi Maran (Central Chennai), Tamizhachi Thangapandian (South Chennai) are leading in their respective constituencies.

The BJP-led NDA has surged ahead in Karnataka as very early trends for the Lok Sabha election started coming in. About an hour after counting began, the NDA is heading in 22 out of 28 seats and the INDIA Opposition bloc in three

The Telugu Desam Party (TDP) is currently leading in 20 Assembly seats out of the total 175 segments in Andhra Pradesh. Its NDA partner Jana Sena is ahead on two seats.

While the parties wait for the results with bated breath, about 13 bellwether seats spread across 7 states give a good indication of what to expect today. A bellwether seat is a constituency that gives an indication/trend for the region and also its impact on the national level.

The Telugu Desam Party (TDP) is leading in four Assembly seats out of the total 175 segments in Andhra Pradesh while the party is also leading in one Lok Sabha seat. Rajamundry Rural Assembly candidate G Butchayya Chowdary is ahead of his YSRCP rival and Minister C Srinivas.

As per early roads, the BJP-led NDA has surged ahead in Karnataka and is already leading on 25 out of the 28 Lok Sabha seats in the state.

The countdown to Verdict 2024 has begun. After a 44-day Lok Sabha election in which 64 crore people across India voted in seven rounds, the votes are being counted today and results will be announced.

Sitting Congress MP from Thiruvananthapuram Shashi Tharoor has started off with a lead when postal votes were counted today. Mr Tharoor is aiming for his fourth straight win and is pitted against Minister of State Rajeev Chandrasekhar of BJP and former MP Paniyan Ravindran of CPI.
Kerala has 20 seats and at the 2019 polls, the Congress-led UDF had won 19 seats and the CPI-M-led Left got one seat.

The INDIA alliance, a group of Opposition parties who joined hands to challenge the ruling NDA, are currently ahead on 115 seats, according to early trends. The NDA is leading on 140.

All eyes are on Lok Sabha election results with a number of high-profile electoral battles, starring veterans and debutants, formidable opponents and unlikely contestants.

A total of 194 candidates are vying for the 20 seats in Kerala, with Congress-led UDF expecting to repeat its performance in the 2019 LS polls, the CPI(M)-led ruling LDF aiming to do much better than the last general elections, and the BJP-led NDA hoping to open its account in Kerala.

As per early trends, the National Democratic Alliance (NDA) is ahead on 92 seats, while the Opposition INDIA bloc is leading on 73.

"We are desperate to open the sweet as early as possible. We know where we are standing. The workers, panna pramukhs are the real warriors. They have come forward irrespective of caste and creed. Of course, we will get 400+ (NDA) and 370+ (BJP)," BJP spokesperson Anuj Kapur told NDTV. 

Congress' Rahul Gandhi is leading in Kerala's Wayanad, suggest early trends. Prime Minister Narendra Modi is leading in Varanasi.

The Bharatiya Janata Party, led by Prime Minister Narendra Modi, will hope for a good performance in the South Indian states, which could help them achieve their target of 400 in the 543-seat Lok Sabha. The party had won 25 seats in Karnataka and 4 seats in Telangana in the previous Parliamentary elections in 2019, but made little to no mark in the states of Kerala, Tamil Nadu, and Andhra Pradesh.

Union Minister Piyush Goyal said that BJP is confident of winning a third consecutive term. "PM Modi's popularity is across the country due to the way he has served the poor without any discrimination and gave opportunities to youth and a better future to the farmers. Today India has a new resolve to become Viksit Bharat," he told reporters.

In the 2019 Lok Sabha election, the BJP had allied with the AIADMK but the two were thumped by the DMK-Congress combine that claimed 38 of Tamil Nadu's 39 seats; the hold-out was Theni, near Madurai, which was won by the AIADMK's P Ravindhranath. The BJP contested only five seats in that election.

In Karnataka, the BJP is predicted to secure a significant majority despite the state's historical inclination towards the Congress. In Telangana, exit polls suggest that the Congress might struggle to capitalise on its previous assembly poll victory, with the BJP poised to secure over half of the state's 17 seats following the decline of K Chandrasekhar Rao's Bharat Rashtra Samithi.

Votes will also be counted for the Andhra Pradesh assembly elections. Seeking another term, the YSRCP contested on all175 seats alone, while the TDP fielded candidates on 144 seats. Pawan Kalyan-led Jana Sena Party (JSP) contested on 21 seats and the BJP on 10 seats.

BJP candidate from Hyderabad Madhavi Latha said that the entire country is looking forward to the seat's outcome. "I am pretty excited and all of them who have voted for BJP in the entire country are looking forward to especially this particular seat, that we win and bring justice to the Lok Sabha seat in Hyderabad," Ms Latha said today.

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All exit polls are unanimous about NDA's improved performance in the south and in Bengal. In Andhra Pradesh, analysts predict that the NDA's alliance with Chandrababu Naidu has proven fruitful, projecting an expected victory in 18 out of the state's 25 seats.

Counting of votes for all 543 Lok Sabha seats will begin at 8am. While the BJP is hoping to win a third consecutive term, the Opposition has formed the INDIA alliance hoping to defeat the ruling party.