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India’s ongoing elections is a battle for dominance inside the Parliament. The incumbent government led by the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) is seen as the strongest outfit, even after five years in power. The party is projecting Prime Minister Narendra Modi as an invincible candidate with solutions for the millions of problems that plague India’s economy and society, much like Thanos. On the other hand, unlike the two-party structure in the US, there is a motley crew of political parties with equally big egos but very diverse ideologies, and varying degrees of charisma. However, individual prospects of success, if they were to take on Modi by themselves, can be called uncertain at best. Therefore, there is a clamour for a grand anti-Modi coalition-- in India they call it ‘<keyword id="2838249" type="PERSON" weightage="20" keywordseo="Mahagathbandhan">Mahagathbandhan</keyword>’-- much like the Avengers. What is missing is the equivalent of a S.H.I.E.L.D that can put together an optimal team. Yet, efforts towards forming a coalition are constantly underway. Some analysis [hyperlink] suggest that it will remain a strong possibility even after the elections. In academic terms, the phenomenon is called ‘index of opposition unity’. In all the Parliamentary elections since 2002, 45% of the seats have been won due to low ‘index of opposition unity’, according to data analysed by veteran psephologists Prannoy Roy and Dorab Sopariwala in their recent book ‘The Verdict’. In other words, the winning party converted low votes into a seat because the rival parties were fragmented. However, it is easier said than done for parties to forge friendships given their troubled past with each other. Most parties have been part of different alliances, led either by BJP or the Congress, at some point or the other. The ideologies have been far more malleable than their egos. The contenders 
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 There are 12 regional and local parties from 10 states that have come together for now. Leading the coalition from the front is the Bahujan Samajwadi Party and Samajwadi party in Uttar Pradesh. The political landscape changed in the western parts of Uttar Pradesh when <keyword id="6388951" type="COMPANY" weightage="20" keywordseo="Rashtriya-Lok-Dal">Rashtriya Lok Dal</keyword> joined hands [hyperlink] with Samajwadi Party-Bahujan Samaj Party to gear up against the rise of BJP in Uttar Pradesh. The RLD is a former ally of the <keyword id="190679" type="ORGANIZATION" weightage="20" keywordseo="Indian-National-Congress">Indian National Congress</keyword>, the only other national outfit after BJP. Congress itself is not part of this alliance, at least not yet. The Congress itself has stitched together a different clique comprising of other regional satraps like the Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam (DMK) from Tamil Nadu, the <keyword id="54794" type="ORGANIZATION" weightage="20" keywordseo="Nationalist-Congress-Party">Nationalist Congress Party</keyword> (NCP) in Maharashtra, and the <keyword id="123786" type="ORGANIZATION" weightage="20" keywordseo="Rashtriya-Janata-Dal">Rashtriya Janata Dal</keyword> (RJD) in Bihar, among others. While some of the communist outfits are in the Congress clique, the biggest of all the red parties, the Communist Party of India (Marxist), CPI(M) as it’s popularly known, is still largely fighting on its own in different parts of the country. As it stands, CPI(M) cannot form a government on its own, it has to offer its support to one coalition or the other. The party’s state unit in Punjab has already offered its support to the Mahagathbandhan in Uttar Pradesh. The fight between Modi’s challengers is to decide who shall lead the pack and who shall become the Prime Minister. So while the different packs are non-committal to a common cause right now, a post-poll consensus is still very likely after some of the egos are cut to size by the election results. But Modi is not Thanos However much the BJP would like Modi to be all-powerful and invincible like Thanos, he isn’t. Even in the thumping victory of 2014, the BJP and allies, the National Democratic Alliance (NDA) had just 31% of the country’s votes. The parties backing Modi, too, have mostly been fair-weather friends at best. The Janata Dal (United) led by <keyword id="6358190" type="PERSON" weightage="20" keywordseo="Nitish-Kumar">Nitish Kumar</keyword> in Bihar has been in and out of the NDA at will in the past. Bickering is a constant feature between the BJP and the Shiv Sena in Maharashtra, an alliance that has survived 25 years with breaks in between. While the two parties are fighting together this election, the Sena chief Uddhav Thackeray recently called Modi ‘a thief’ just days before sealing the deal with the BJP. Realpolitik, the German word for politics that is more practical than ideological, comes alive every five years, around the Lok Sabha election, in India. As in The Avengers Endgame, the challengers will have to sacrifice ego and embrace realpolitik to stay relevant.

The Avengers Endgame has a lesson for Narendra Modi’s rivals in India – NO SPOILERS

The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) is exploring each and every opportunity for upcoming assembly elections in Uttar Pradesh. Yet again, it is playing the development plank and <keyword id="6354814" type="UNKNOWN" weightage="20" keywordseo="prime-minister-Narendra-Modi">Prime Minister Narendra Modi</keyword> has set short goals for its ministries to achieve them in the state and complete crucial projects. 
 
Unlike Bihar strategy, for UP the BJP will have short term goals that can major impact on the ground. Modi has asked ministries to make a list of plans that can be completed by the end of December. 
 
"The party and the government have asked the ministries on the status of projects currently going on in the state of Uttar Pradesh by August 15. The ministries will also have to share a list of projects that can be completed by the end of the current calendar year. The non-infrastructure ministries can be exempted but the infrastructure ministries will have to come up with a list of doable projects," a government official aware of the development told ET. 
 
For instance, the aviation ministry will upgrade seven airports and make them operational under the regional connectivity scheme. 
 
Also, Road Transport and Highways Minister Nitin Gadkari held meetings with field officials and engineers of the National Highways Authority of India in Uttar Pradesh. 
 
But, all the plans can hit a roadblock as to upgrade several state highways to national highways, the Centre needs No-Objection Certificates (NOCs) from the Akhilesh Yadav-led Samajwadi Party government. 
 
Uttar Pradesh currently has 31 ongoing major national highway projects being constructed at a cost of Rs 19,400 crore. The total length of these projects is 2,156 km. The ministry is looking at early completion of these highways.

PM Modi doesn’t want to do a Bihar in UP; playing development plank yet again, setting impactful goals before polls

<ul><li>Unnao, Uttar Pradesh goes to vote in the fourth phase of elections today. </li><li>The key candidates from the Unnao Lok Sabha constituency include controversial BJP MP Sakshi Maharaj, Annu Tandon from Congress and Arun Shankar Shukla of Samajwadi party. </li><li>Of the total electoral candidates for fourth phase, Uttar Pradesh has 18% candidates with declared serious criminal cases, according to the Association for Democratic Reforms (ADR) report. </li></ul>Unnao in Uttar Pradesh is the country’s <a href="https://www.businessinsider.in/lok-sabha-elections-2019-first-phase-of-polling-key-issues-in-all-states/articleshow/68824300.cms">largest electoral constituency</a> voting in the fourth phase of India’s general elections. The key candidates from the Unnao Lok Sabha constituency include controversial BJP MP Sakshi Maharaj, Annu Tandon from Congress and Arun Shankar Shukla of Samajwadi party. Much under the heat due to the rape case against BJP MLA Kuldeep Singh Sengar, Unnao, Uttar Pradesh, has been facing resentment by its natives largely. Back in April 2018, Sengar, a four-time MLA , was <a href="https://www.indiatoday.in/india/story/unnao-rape-case-fir-against-victim-kin-for-falsely-claiming-she-is-a-minor-1418061-2018-12-27">accused</a> for raping a minor at his place in Makhi village, and is presently behind the bars along with his wife Shashi and son Shubham. The Yogi Adityanath led BJP government, has sent Sakshi Maharaj from Unnao for 3 consecutive tenures. Claiming to be a saint, Maharaj has 34 criminal cases against him for robbery, murder, forgery — including two accusing him of rape, reported news agency <a href="https://www.huffingtonpost.in/entry/sakshi-maharaj-unnao-bjp_in_5cc15940e4b0764d31dcb373">IANS</a> mentioning his election affidavit. Earlier this month, the self-proclaimed ‘saint’ reportedly said those who didn’t vote for him would be cursed. “A saint has come to your door. When a saint comes to beg and is not given what he asks for, he takes away all the happiness of the family and in turn curses the family...This I am not saying, but I am quoting from sacred scriptures. I am not asking for money or land. Those who do not vote for me will face divine displeasure,” the Tribune reported quoting him. Popularly known as ‘Anna,’ Samajwadi party candidate Arun Shankar Shukla has had oodles of land in Lucknow and neighbouring areas. In fact, he had been a prime suspect in a guesthouse scandal in mid-nineties, India Today <a href="https://www.indiatoday.in/election-news/story/corporate-power-takes-on-a-mafia-don-in-unnao-45661-2009-04-26">reported</a>. According to a <a href="https://indianexpress.com/article/india/india-others/top-100-hsbc-account-holders-with-indian-addresses/">leaked report</a> on money held in Swiss bank accounts, Congress candidate Annu Tondon had a staggering account value of $5,728,042 (nearly ₹400 million), as on July 2007. Crime and Politics intertwined Indian politics has had a strong intertwining with criminal charges on its potential candidates. According to the <a href="https://adrindia.org/content/lok-sabha-elections-2019-uttar-pradesh-phase-4-elections-2019-analysis-criminal-background">Association for Democratic Reforms</a>, which analysed <keyword id="456985" type="PERSON" weightage="20" keywordseo="Candidates-with-criminal-records">candidates with criminal records</keyword>, 210 candidates have been found with declared criminal cases. Out of which, 25 candidates(44%) are from the ruling party Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) while Congress has sent 18 candidates(32%) for the electoral process. 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
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 While the Supreme Court refused to keep political parties from sending their candidates into polls, it directed all the electoral candidates and political parties to publish the criminal records of their party candidates via newspapers and social media channels. Of the total electoral candidates for fourth phase, Uttar Pradesh has 18% candidates with declared serious criminal cases, according to the <a href="https://adrindia.org/content/lok-sabha-elections-2019-uttar-pradesh-phase-4-elections-2019-analysis-criminal-background">Association for Democratic Reforms</a> (ADR) report. See also: <a href="https://www.businessinsider.in/uttar-pradesh-lok-sabha-elections-2019-first-phase-polling-will-see-farmers-anger/articleshow/68820034.cms">Uttar Pradesh’s unpaid farmers who are owed ₹128 billion will express their anger with ballot ink</a> <a href="https://www.businessinsider.in/lok-sabha-elections-2019-first-phase-of-polling-key-issues-in-all-states/articleshow/68824300.cms">142 million voters go to polls today in 20 states— here’s a look at the key issues in every state</a>

India’s largest constituency only has candidates with criminal past to choose from

When farmers were protesting across India against the NDA government’s land acquisition bill, over 30, 000 farmers in Uttar Pradesh willingly gave their fertile lands to the <keyword id="927064" type="ORGANIZATION" weightage="80" keywordseo="Samajwadi-Party-led-government">Samajwadi Party-led government</keyword> to build its six-lane Agra-Lucknow expressway project. The government's flagship 302-km expressway greenfield project is the longest in the country till date. 

	The state government has acquired nearly 3,000 hectares of fertile, multi-cropped land for its greenfield expressway project without a murmur of dissent. At least 30,074 farmers in that state gave up fertile tracts of the Indo-Gangetic plain in record time. 
	 

	But the question arises, how did this acquisition for the Rs 15,000 crore project happen so quickly? When asked about the same, Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister <keyword id="6355031" type="PERSON" weightage="80" keywordseo="Akhilesh-Yadav">Akhilesh Yadav</keyword> told TOI that by keeping farmers happy. When <keyword id="93127" type="ORGANIZATION" weightage="80" keywordseo="UP-Expressway-Industrial-Development-Authority">UP Expressway Industrial Development Authority</keyword> (UPEIDA), the nodal agency for implementing the project, set out to acquire land for the developers of the expressway project, it decided to avoid the contentious "acquisition" process almost entirely. "Instead of acquiring land as is usually done, it was decided to purchase land from farmers through a mutual agreement. 
	 

	To make the transaction more lucrative, land owners were offered four times the circle rates (CR) in rural areas, and twice the CR in urban parts, as purchase cost. Acquisition was only considered in cases where mutual agreement failed," said Navneet Sehgal, chief executive, UPEIDA. To build it by October 2016, as the chief minister has promised to do, the <keyword id="95895" type="ORGANIZATION" weightage="80" keywordseo="UP-government">UP government</keyword> needs a total of 3,368.60 hectares of land cutting across 232 revenue villages from Agra to Lucknow, and passing through the districts of Mainpuri, Etawah, Kannauj, Auraiyya and Unnao. In the 270 days between June 2014 and January this year, UPEIDA completed about 27,000 registries at the rate of about 10 a day, arguably the fastest yet, government-run expressway project of this magnitude. To achieve this, UPEIDA paid, till May 15, 2015, Rs 2,844.55 crore to make an outright purchase of 2,824.16 hectares of land from individual land owners, and 303.29 hectares from government departments, almost 93% of the total land it needed. Assistant CEO UPEIDA, <keyword id="361651" type="PERSON" weightage="80" keywordseo="Ashutosh-Dubey">Ashutosh Dubey</keyword> said, "The government set up rate fixation committees under the chairmanship of the <keyword id="6381069" type="POSITION" weightage="60" keywordseo="District-magistrate">district magistrate</keyword> to arrive at a mutually agreeable rate. After the approval of the CEO, land owners were given four times, or twice the CR depending on the location of their land. 
	 Apart from their land holdings, owners were also compensated for permanent structures built on their land, and for unharvested crops." When TOI contacted land owners who gave up their land through a mutual agreement with the state government, reactions were mixed. In Unnao, which falls under segment 5 of the expressway project and is being developed by <keyword id="689816" type="COMPANY" weightage="80" keywordseo="Larsen-Toubro-Limited">Larsen &amp; Toubro Limited</keyword>, Jagdamba Singh, a resident of Matariya village, confirmed he had received four times the circle rate. 
	 

	"My village was on the Unnao-Lucknow border, but on the Unnao side. My compensation, as a result, was paid according to the prevailing DM circle rates in Unnao. The neighbouring village that falls in Lucknow, however, received a higher compensation. So even though I got four times, I felt cheated," Singh said. In Etawah's Takha tehsil, Bakridan begum walked away with a compensation of Rs 8.91 lakh for selling 2.5 bighas of land held in her name. Her son, <keyword id="3718452" type="PERSON" weightage="80" keywordseo="Naseem-Khan">Naseem Khan</keyword> told TOI, "We used about Rs 98,000 for a wedding in the family. We are also in advanced stages of talks over the purchase of additional agriculture land with the compensation money we received." In both cases, Singh and Khan said their families will remain invested in farming and did not plan to use the surplus funds to diversify their businesses. 
	 

	Not all land holders, however, were agreeable to selling their land to the government. In such cases, UP opted for the land acquisition process as prescribed under the Land Acquisition, Rehabilitation and Resettlement Act of 2013, and acquired 160.28 hectares of land. Here, while the rate of compensation remained the same, beneficiaries were offered an extra payment at an interest rate prescribed within the state's rules.

	The benefits of the dual model-acquisition plus purchase were many. "This model allowed UP to facilitate land transfer to developers in record time, Dubey said. Since the state's pur chase-acquisition process started in June last year, UPEIDA now has a land pool of 3,287.73 hectares of the 3,368.60 hectares it needed; that's 97.6% of the land it needed, organized in less than one year. 
	 

	The success of the Agra-Lucknow "expressway" model of acquiring land through mutual agreements and through the acquisition route has now been extended to other construction projects as well. "It is a smoother, faster process. More significantly, though, farmers and land holders get a much better deal for their land than they would if we went the acquisition way. That would have been also much more time-consuming,” Dubey added.

	 
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Know how land was acquired for Agra-Lucknow expressway

The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) was seen leading with a landslide margin over the main opposition the Indian National Congress (INC), and several others, according to indicative trends of the results of India’s Parliamentary elections. As of 10:47 am, BJP was leading in 294 seats out of 542 constituencies while Congress took 50 seats, according to the Election Commission of India. BJP appears so confident of winning the elections that it has reportedly invited 20,000 party workers to its headquarters to welcome the Prime Minister. In Gujarat, BJP has a sweep with 26 out of 26 seats. In Gandhinagar, one of the strongholds for the party. BJP president Amit Shah had 42,0351 votes with a total estimated vote share of 72.8%. In Karnataka, Bharatiya Janata Party did surprisingly well leading with 23 out of 28 seats, ahead of its Indian National Congress, which had three seats. In Uttar Pradesh, which has 80 seats, BJP and allies were leading with 57 seats while the Samajwadi Party - Bahujan Samajwadi Party alliance was ahead in 20 constituencies, according to EC. PM Narendra Modi had won 65.19% of the votes in Varanasi, way ahead of his rivals. BJP also did well in Bihar, leading in 16 of the 37 seats. while its allies Janata Dal-United (JD-U) also led in 15 constituencies and Lok Janshakti Party (LJP) in 5, puncturing the Grand Alliance led by the RJD. For rival Congress, the best performing state so far has been Kerala where its candidates were leading in 16 of the 20 Lok Sabha seats. The BJP was widely projected to take the majority of the 542 seats in the elections of the Lok Sabha, the upper house of the Indian Parliament, in the latest exit polls. The party and its allies made a sweep in the 2014 elections, winning a majority in the Indian Parliament for the first <a href="https://www.businessinsider.in/india-lok-sabha-elections-2019-counting-and-results-highlights/articleshow/69453349.cms" data-type="tilCustomLink">time</a>.

Lok Sabha Elections Results 2019: Bharatiya Janata Party sweeps in indicative leads

The Uttar Pradesh government has decided to develop <keyword id="17425" type="CITY" weightage="100" keywordseo="Allahabad">Allahabad</keyword> as an integrated industrial township like <keyword id="18858" type="COMPANY" weightage="100" keywordseo="Noida">Noida</keyword>. It has come up with a proposal to develop Allahabad as an “access-controlled township that will have 4G network and full <keyword id="47655" type="TECHNOLOGY" weightage="60" keywordseo="Wi-Fi">Wi-Fi</keyword> connectivity with homogeneity of design for all building structures,” an official release said. 
 The Samajwadi Party government led by Chief Minister <keyword id="6355031" type="PERSON" weightage="80" keywordseo="Akhilesh-Yadav">Akhilesh Yadav</keyword> has been promoting its development agenda to win back support after its dismal performance in the Lok Sabha elections. 
 
A presentation on the plan of the new city was made to senior officials from the infrastructure and industrial development department and Uttar Pradesh State Industrial Development Corporation during a meeting last week. 
 
“Around 25% area of the township would be reserved for industries with dedicated power supply, prepaid electricity meters, provision for 100 per cent water harvesting, zero-discharge mechanism, and CNG supply network,” said Sanjiv Saran, principal secretary, industrial development. 
 
Amity University, Fortis Healthcare and Maruti Suzuki have already expressed interest to invest in the state and the government is considering to allot them land in Allahabad. 
 
“The education department has been asked to prepare a proposal to develop the university in 40 acres of land,” an official statement said.

UP Govt To Develop Allahabad Like Noida

The <keyword id="43771" type="UNKNOWN" weightage="100" keywordseo="Exit-polls">exit polls</keyword> conducted by various news channels have unanimously projected that NDA will get the magical figure of 272 or at least be in striking distance of forming the next government. 
 The exit polls also indicate that the <keyword id="14666" type="ORGANIZATION" weightage="80" keywordseo="BJP">BJP</keyword> is all set to come up with its best ever performance. In contrast, the <keyword id="1575" type="ORGANIZATION" weightage="80" keywordseo="Congress">Congress</keyword> is headed towards its worst ever performance, with its total number of seats projected to be in the range of 100, as per the exit polls. 
 Four channels – <keyword id="2238539" type="UNKNOWN" weightage="60" keywordseo="NewsX">NewsX</keyword>, <keyword id="211456" type="COMPANY" weightage="60" keywordseo="India-TV">India TV</keyword>, <keyword id="1739243" type="ORGANIZATION" weightage="60" keywordseo="ABP-News">ABP News</keyword> and <keyword id="60050" type="UNKNOWN" weightage="60" keywordseo="CNN-IBN">CNN-IBN</keyword> – have projected comfortable majority for the NDA. NewsX and India TV have projected 289 seats for the NDA while ABP News estimated that the NDA would capture 281 seats. However, Times Now was the most conservative in its projections, giving the NDA 249-265 <keyword id="6355187" type="ORGANIZATION" weightage="100" keywordseo="Lok-Sabha">Lok Sabha</keyword> seats, while CNN-IBN gave it 279-282 seats. 
 
Hindi news channel News24 gave NDA a thumping majority and predicted it to bag 340 seats. On the other hand, Aaj Tak predicted the NDA figures in the range of 261-283. Even if the party gets 261, getting the support of 11 more MPs should not be too difficult, given the fact that the AIADMK chief Jayalalitha is said to be close to Narendra Modi and has extended her support to the coalition in the past during the tenure of the Vajpayee government. 
 
Most of the exit polls showed the United Progressive Alliance (UPA) getting between 101 and 148 seats. NewsX gave the UPA 101 seats, India TV 107 seats, ABP News 97 and CNN-IBN 92-102. 
 
‘Others’, including regional parties like the Samajwadi Party, Bahujan Samajwadi Party, JD (U) and the Left Front, are estimated to get between 146 and 156 seats. 
 
The exit polls also forecast that the BJP would not be able to open its account in the southern states of Tamil Nadu and Kerala. However, in the North, the Narendra Modi wave is projected to sweep away regional identity-based heavyweights like the Samajwadi Party and the Bahujan Samaj Party in Uttar Pradesh, and the Rashtriya Janata Dal (RJD) in Bihar. 
 
The BJP is likely have the biggest gains in Uttar Pradesh where two surveys expect it to bag 54 seats, just three less than its all-time high of 57 in 1998. Similarly, the exit polls ruled out the possibility of RJD’s revival. 
 
The debutant Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) is projected to get an average of only five seats, with a total vote share of about 4%.

Ab Ki Baar Modi
Sarkar? Exit Polls Suggest It Just Might Be

The <a href="http://www.businessinsider.in/searchresult.cms?query=ayodhya&amp;sortorder=effectivedate">Ayodhya </a>dispute to yet to settle down but one thing is coming up for sure in the holy city-Ramayana museum. 
 
Yes, Hindu hardliner and newly appointed <a href="http://www.businessinsider.in/searchresult.cms?query=yogi+adityanath&amp;sortorder=effectivedate">Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath</a> did not surprise anyone with his move as he cleared 20 acres of land for construction of Ramayana museum in Ayodhya. The proposal had come up during previous<a href="http://www.businessinsider.in/searchresult.cms?query=akhilesh+yadav&amp;sortorder=effectivedate"> Akhilesh </a><a href="http://www.businessinsider.in/searchresult.cms?query=akhilesh+yadav&amp;sortorder=effectivedate">Yadav</a>-led UP government, but was rejected. 
 As per various reports, the Ramayana museum in Ayodhya will cost Rs 154 crore and will be a part of the <keyword id="980432" type="UNKNOWN" weightage="20" keywordseo="Ramayana-circuit">Ramayana Circuit</keyword> for which the Modi government has sanctioned Rs 225 crore, with Rs 151 crore exclusively for Ayodhya, which is the hub of the circuit. 
 
The move to build a museum also comes after the <a href="http://www.businessinsider.in/searchresult.cms?query=supreme+court&amp;sortorder=effectivedate">Supreme Court</a> advised an out of court settlement for Ayodhya Ramjanmabhoomi-Babri Masjid dispute. 
 
The Modi government had increased the Ramayana museum grant from Rs. 175 crore to Rs. 225 crore so that a state of the art museum can come up in the ancient town celebrated in Hindu epics as the seat of Lord Rama’s birthplace and kingdom. 
Sources told Times Now the formalities will be completed within the next seven to ten days. 
 
The Government is planning to complete the construction of the Ramayana museum within 18 months. 
 The decision to build the museum had triggered a fierce political battle then, with the <keyword id="6354265" type="ORGANIZATION" weightage="20" keywordseo="samajwadi-party">Samajwadi Party</keyword> simultaneously announcing that it will construct a Ramlila Park in Ayodhya.

No surprises here; Hindu hardliner & UP CM Yogi Adityanath clears 20 acres of land for Ramayana Museum

<keyword id="6354477" type="PERSON" weightage="100" keywordseo="Narendra-Modi">Narendra Modi</keyword> has led the <keyword id="14666" type="ORGANIZATION" weightage="100" keywordseo="BJP">BJP</keyword> to its biggest <keyword id="6359191" type="EVENT" weightage="100" keywordseo="election">election</keyword> victory. In fact, it is the biggest election victory in the country since Rajiv Gandhi swept to power in 1984, following India Gandhi’s assassination. The outcome for the BJP has been even better than what the exit polls had predicted like Chanakya News. 
 
The BJP has swept away parties like Mayawati’s Bahujan Samajwadi Party and Mulayam’s Samajwadi Party in Uttar Pradesh. BSP was completely decimated and even failed to open its account. 
 <keyword id="1575" type="ORGANIZATION" weightage="100" keywordseo="Congress">Congress</keyword>’ national tally has been less than that of the BJP in UP alone. The BJP had won 251 seats and was leading in 31 constituencies, making its total tally to 282 as per the latest update. The Congress had won only 41 and was leading in five, managing just a total of 46, as per the latest update. 
 <keyword id="41281" type="ORGANIZATION" weightage="100" keywordseo="NDA">NDA</keyword>’s tally stood at 337 (lead+win), while <keyword id="6355364" type="ORGANIZATION" weightage="100" keywordseo="UPA">UPA</keyword>’s tally stood at modest 59 (lead+win). 
 
Several Congress heavyweights – Lok Sabha Speaker Meira Kumar, PK Bansal, Kapil Sibbal, Sandeep Dikshit, Ajay Makan, Madhsudan Mistry, Sanjay Nirupam and Priya Dutt had to bite the dust. 
 
All the BJP-ruled states - Gujarat, Madhya Pradesh, Rajasthan and Chhattisgarh headed the BJP way. 
It remains to be seen what Modi does with this degree of political authority.

It Is Actually Ab Ki Baar Modi Sarkaar, BJP
Is Going To Make The Government In India

Taking the India-US bonhomie further, <a href="http://www.businessinsider.in/searchresult.cms?query=donald+trump&amp;sortorder=effectivedate">US President Donald Trump </a>called <a href="http://www.businessinsider.in/searchresult.cms?query=prime+minister+narendra+modi&amp;sortorder=effectivedate">Prime Minister Narendra Modi</a> to congratulate him on success in recent <a href="http://www.businessinsider.in/searchresult.cms?query=assembly+elections&amp;sortorder=effectivedate">assembly elections</a>. 
 Modi’s <keyword id="58687" type="ORGANIZATION" weightage="20" keywordseo="Bharatiya-Janata-Party">Bharatiya Janata Party</keyword> (BJP) formed government in four states-<a href="http://www.businessinsider.in/searchresult.cms?query=Uttar+Pradesh&amp;sortorder=effectivedate">Uttar</a><a href="http://www.businessinsider.in/searchresult.cms?query=Uttar+Pradesh&amp;sortorder=effectivedate"> Pradesh</a>, Uttarakhand, Goa and Manipur-out of five. Congress party claimed Punjab. 
 The BJP returned to power in <keyword id="6357713" type="COMPANY" weightage="20" keywordseo="Uttar-Pradesh">Uttar Pradesh</keyword> after 15 years, toppling <keyword id="6354265" type="ORGANIZATION" weightage="20" keywordseo="samajwadi-party">Samajwadi Party</keyword> and the Bahujan Samaj Party. 
 
Goa and Manipur had hung assemblies after the polls, but the BJP managed to form the government with the support of other parties. 
 
The elections in the five states had turned into a virtual referendum on Modi's popularity following his decision to<a href="http://www.businessinsider.in/searchresult.cms?query=demonetisation&amp;sortorder=effectivedate"> demonetise</a> Rs 500 and Rs 1,000 currency notes.

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New Delhi [India], June 4 (ANI): With counting progressing in <keyword id="19912155" type="General" weightage="20" keywordseo="Lok-Sabha-polls" source="keywords">Lok Sabha polls</keyword>, the Bharatiya Janata Party-led <keyword id="20344628" type="General" weightage="20" keywordseo="National-Democratic-Alliance" source="keywords" meta.keywordsubtype="org" meta.entityname="National Democratic Alliance" meta.hostid="261" meta.entityid="National Democratic Alliance">National Democratic Alliance</keyword> is leading on more than 100 seats as per the latest trends according to TV channels. Around 642 million people voted in Lok Sabha elections held over seven phases in a mammoth six-week period. The counting of votes began starting with postal ballot papers amid tight security. The counting for State Legislative Assemblies of 175 Assembly constituencies in Andhra Pradesh and 147 Assembly constituencies in Odisha and results of bypolls in 25 Assembly constituencies also began. The Lok Sabha elections for 543 seats of the lower house were held across seven phases. The <keyword id="19931558" type="General" weightage="20" keywordseo="Bharatiya-Janata-Party" source="keywords" meta.keywordsubtype="org" meta.entityname="Bharatiya Janata Party" meta.hostid="261" meta.entityid="Bharatiya Janata Party">Bharatiya Janata Party</keyword> is eyeing a third straight term in power, while the Opposition under the umbrella of the <keyword id="19895684" type="General" weightage="20" keywordseo="INDIA-bloc" source="keywords" meta.keywordsubtype="org" meta.entityname="INDIA bloc" meta.hostid="261" meta.entityid="INDIA bloc">INDIA bloc</keyword> is seeking to wrest power from the ruling party.Most exit polls predicted a straight term for Prime Minister Narendra Modi, with quite few of them projecting a two-thirds majority for the ruling BJP-led National Democratic Alliance (<keyword id="41281" type="General" weightage="20" keywordseo="NDA" source="Orion">NDA</keyword>). The Congress party and its allies dismissed the exit polls as "orchestrated" and a work of "fantasy", asserting that the opposition INDIA bloc will form the next government at the Centre. Strict security has been put in place for the smooth conduct of counting of votes for over 8,000 candidates in this general election. With counting began for the Lok Sabha elections, which have seen the largest voter participation, the electoral fate of several leaders across the political spectrum will be decided. Prime Minister Narendra Modi, Home Minister Amit Shah, and Defence Minister Rajnath Singh are among the senior BJP leaders in the fray. Key opposition leaders, including former Congress chief Rahul Gandhi, NCP's Supriya Sule, and Samajwadi Party chief Akhilesh Yadav, are also contesting the poll. Two polls predicted the BJP would also improve its numbers from the 303 seats it won in the 2019 Lok Sabha polls. In the 2019 elections, NDA wrested 353 seats, of which the BJP won 303 alone. The Opposition's UPA got only 93 seats of which the Congress got 52. Even before the counting of the votes, the Bharatiya Janata Party won one seat of Surat Lok Sabha. Earlier on April 22, Mukesh Dalal won the election "unopposed". Congress nominee Nilesh Kumbhani's nomination was rejected. His candidacy was rejected because of alleged discrepancies in the signatures of the proposers.

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Attempting to turnaround the fall in construction equipment industry, <a href="http://www.businessinsider.in/BJP-Prez-Amit-Shah-criticises-Congress-hails-BJP-one-year-on/articleshow/47427020.cms">BJP</a>-ruled states led the pack in building of national highways in 2014-15, with Rajasthan, <keyword id="6355554" type="COMPANY" weightage="100" keywordseo="Madhya-Pradesh">Madhya Pradesh</keyword> and Chhattisgarh figuring among the top five performers on this count. BJD-ruled Odisha and Samajwadi Party-ruled Uttar Pradesh were the other two states. 
 
The year saw a slight pickup in construction activity, with 4,409 km of highways being built during the fiscal, up from 4,281 km in the previous year. Yet, the figure was lower than the 5,732 km achieved during 2012-13. The <keyword id="6354477" type="PERSON" weightage="100" keywordseo="Narendra-Modi">Narendra Modi</keyword> government has cleared 1,231 projects for 37,000 km to meet its target for highways sector as part of a strategy to spur infrastructure development. 
 
The construction equipment industry , which saw a 10.8 per cent fall in demand in 2014-15, saw a turnaround in the first quarter of the current fiscal. 
 
The spurt in road construction led to a 93 per cent surge in bitumen imports in 2014-15, when 13 km of roads were built on average every day under the Modi <a href="http://www.businessinsider.in/The-activist-in-BJP-Sudhanshu-Mittal/articleshow/46606867.cms">governmen</a>t compared to 3 km in the last days of the previous regime. 
 The <keyword id="87432" type="ORGANIZATION" weightage="100" keywordseo="National-Highways-Authority-of-India">National Highways Authority of India</keyword> (NHAI) could not award the targeted projects due to the economic downturn in 2013-14. 
 
However, the <a href="http://www.businessinsider.in/Look-for-Rahul-dont-try-digging-out-Govts-faults-Amit-Shah-slams-Cong-at-BJP-national-executive/articleshow/46794436.cms">governmen</a>t has decided to kick-start projects on the engineering, procurement and construction mode (EPC) which entails en tire funding from the Union <a href="http://www.businessinsider.in/Budget-2014-Signals-Achche-Din-For-Middle-Class/articleshow/38207490.cms">budget</a>. "Things have started to move in the right direction and we are seeing a bottoming out trend in demand. Increased public expenditure on infrastructure is a good sign," said equipment manu facturer JCB India's manag ing director and CEO, <keyword id="617645" type="UNKNOWN" weightage="100" keywordseo="Vipin-Sondhi">Vipin Sondhi</keyword>. 
 
Participation of the private sector in projectsis yet to gath er pace. The road ministry is in the process of receiving bids for projects totalling 700 km and worth Rs 9,200 crore offered on BOT-toll mode in the first quarter of the current fiscal. 
 
(Image credits: Indiatimes)

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