New Delhi, May 16 – It is just three hours after the counting began on Friday and there is little scope left for any doubt. The man of the moment is towering over others and fast emerging as the destiny of the nation. It’s not a Modi wave, as talked about, it is a TsuNaMo. Trends are now available on all Lok Sabha seats. Of these, the saffron brigade has crossed the 300-mark in leads while the Congress remains a distant second at 75.
BJP has taken a surprising lead on 63 seats in Uttar Pradesh while it is leading in all the seats in Gujarat, Rajasthan and Maharashtra (with allies). In Madhya Pradesh the party is formidable while Karnataka it has made steady gains. In Delhi, the BJP is leading in all the seven seats where AAP, and not the Congress, is the runner-up in most seats.
The message is clear and the future could not have been spelt in more direct terms. The Modi wave, it seems, was actually larger than what was believed. As the man of the moment sits quietly in his home in Gandhinagar watching election trends on TV, the future awaits him in New Delhi.
BJP chief Rajnath Singh who is leading from Lucknow called up Modi to congratulate him on the spectacular performance of the party in the elections. The Gujarat Chief Minister and the party’s PM nominee is leading from Varanasi (11000 votes) and has won Vadodara (by a margin of 4 lakh votes).
Modi’s mother, Heeraba, who had been praying for her son has blessed him.
For the UPA, it is a bad news all along. Other than Congress president Sonia Gandhi and vice-president Rahul Gandhi who are both leading from Sultanpur and Amethi constituencies, and a few more star candidates, most of its candidates, including several Union Ministers, are trailing.
While Mamata Banerjee-led Trinamool Congress is doing very well, leading in most seats in West Bengal, and so is Jayalalithaa-led AIADMK in Tamil Nadu, the news is not so promising for Mayawati’s BSP in Uttar Pradesh. Samajawadi Party chief Mulayam Singh is trailing in both Azamgarh and Mainpuri seats while its candidates are not in a good shape elsewhere in the state.
JD-U chief Sharad Yadav is leading in Madhepura while NCP chief Sharad Pawar’s daughter Supriya Sule is leading in party bastion Baramati. Among star candidates, Congress’s Nagma is leading in Meerut while BJP’s Hema Malini is leading in Mathura. BJP’s Kirron Kher is leading in Chandigarh.
Congress’s Mohd. Azharuddin is trailing in Sawai Madhopur while another cricketer in the fray from the same party, Mohd. Kaif, is leading in Phulpur. BJP’s General (retd.) VK Singh is leading in Ghaziabad. In South Bangalore, BJP’s Ananth Kumar is ahead of Congress’s Nandan Nilekeni.
In Gurgaon, AAP’s Yogendra Yadav is trailing behind BJP’s Rao Inderjeet Singh. Every single second, somebody is leaving the other behind. But the picture is all the more clear. Narendra Modi is set to be the Prime Minister.
-INDIA TODAY
