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Lok Sabha polls: BJP ahead as counting begins

| | May 16, 2014, at 02:20 pm
New Delhi, May 16 (IBNS): Counting of votes in the Lok Sabha polls started on Friday as Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) is leading in 53 seats while the ruling Congress is ahead in 26 seats.

Other parties are ahead in 25 seats.

Counting of votes started at 8 am.

Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP)'s prime ministerial candidate Narendra Modi is ahead in both the Varanasi and Vadodara seats while Congress supremo Sonia Gandhi is leading in  Rae Bareli.

Congress vice-president Rahul Gandhi is ahead in  Amethi.

A staggered nine-phase Lok Sabha poll ended on May 12 in India with projections in all exit polls that BJP-led NDA will come to power. 

A record 66.4 percent people had turned out to cast their votes across the nation.

The nine-phased voting was held from Apr 7 to May 12.

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