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The expected unbelievable has happened - Narendra Modi has led the nation to its greatest grassroots revolution since the sun set on one-party dominance in 1977. the challenger from Gujarat has single handedly made the BJP India's new dominant party with a clear majority of 283 seats (NDA 338) at the time of writing, reducing the Congress to its worst ever tally of 45 (UPA 58) (the figures may change slightly at final count).

On the eve of the Lok Sabha election results, A Congress leader on Thursday suggested that all regional secular parties should come together and elect West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee as the leader to keep BJP out of power.

With most of the exit poll surveys predicting the BJP-led NDA winning the Lok Sabha elections, regional parties and estranged allies seem to be warming up the saffron party.While the BJD indicated that it might extend conditional support to the NDA,an AIADMK leader too hinted that the party may end up joining the BJP-led alliance.

Arvind Kejriwal, the chief of the Aam Aadmi Party or AAP, was slapped again by an auto-rickshaw driver while campaigning in Sultanpuri.

The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) released its much delayed manifesto on Monday, taking up issues ranging from economic revival to protecting cows and Ram temple and promising "immediate and decisive action" to revive the country from the "decade of decay" of the Congress-led UPA government.

The BSE Sensex rose on Tuesday to a third consecutive record high, surpassing the key psychological level of 24,000 points as stocks tied to the domestic economy surged after exit polls showed the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) and its allies winning a majority in the elections.

Various exit polls on Monday have predicted that the BJP-led NDA will storm to power by winning a clear majority in the Lok Sabha election, marking an end to the decade-long misrule of the Congress-led UPA regime.

It`s the final phase of Lok Sabha elections and perhaps one that will be most watched. Varanasi, the seat where BJP`s PM candidate Narendra Modi is contesting against AAP`s Arvind Kejriwal and Congress`s Ajai Rai will vote for their representative.

This is not a Rajinikanth joke: Rajinikanth made his grand entry into the social media world on Monday, but even before the first tweet was published at 4pm, there were more than 20,000 followers.

"Didi will have to run away from Bengal. Bring me to power in Delhi. Let there be competition between me and Didi. Let`s see who the real tiger is," Mr Modi said at a rally in Bankura, nearly 180 kilometres from Kolkata.