According to sources BSP Chief mayawati is likely to arrive in delhi today to decide the future course of action. Meanwhile the SP-BSP Mahagathbandhan is so far leading in 21 constituencies in Uttar Pradesh. Reportedly in Bengal, the Congress which through initial rounds of counting had managed to hold on to 2 seats is down to just 1 at Bahrampur, where its heavy weight and former state president Adhir Ranjan Chowdhury is still in the lead. Furthermore Jangipur candidate Abhijeet Mukherjee, the son of former President Pranab Mukherjee, is trailing with the TMC leading in the seat.
Further the modi wave not only swept through the Hindi heartland and Gujarat, as was expected, but also rippled through West Bengal, Odisha, Maharashtra and Karnataka. Apparently only kerala, Tamilnadu, Andhra Pradesh and Telangana appeared untouched. Reportedly in Odisha, the BJP was ahead in nine of the 21 seats and Biju Janata Dal was ahead in 11. Earlier in 2014, the BJD had won 20 seats and BJP took one. Presently in Telangana, the Telangana Rashtra Samiti was leading in nine seats, the BJP in four and Congress in three.
Moreover BJP ally, Janata Dal (United) was ahead in 16 seats, as votes for the seven phase Parliamentary polls were counted on Thursday, the trinamool congress Party was leading in 25 of 42 seats of West Bengal while BJP was ahead in 15, up from two it held in 2014. Finally the Left was wiped out in the state, once its citadel and the DMK was ahead in 20 seats in Tamilnadu.
