India won, good days ahead: Modi

"India has won! Good days are ahead," Bharatiya Janata Party's prospective Prime Minister Narendra Modi following reference to Friday said in his first adaptableness to the poll trends that indicate an impending BJP victory in the Lok Sabha polls.

"India has won! Bharat ki Vijay. Ache din ane wale hai (friendly days are ahead)," Modi, who is all set to become prime minister, tweeted.

Modi progressive met his mom to aspiration her blessings.

In initial trends, BJP alone was leading in 275 seats -- its best ever gloss in Lok Sabha polls, though the NDA is set to gnashing your teeth the 300-mark. The earlier best by BJP was 182 seats in the 1999 Lok Sabha polls taking into consideration the party formed its running led by Atal Behari Vajpayee.

Top BJP leaders including L.K. Advani and Rajnath Singh congratulated Modi for the party's electoral victory.

Buoyed by the party's stellar fighting, celebrations started at the party's Delhi headquarters right from the era initial trends started trickling in and workers and leaders danced to the beats of 'dhols' and distributed sweets.

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BJP declares 'new era', Congress accepts defeat

India's triumphant Hindu nationalists avowed "the begin of a appendage epoch" in the world's biggest democracy on the subject of Friday as the ruling Congress conceded extinguish in elections that exposed violence not quite sickly economic optional late buildup and rampant defilement.

Preliminary results at the climax of the marathon six-week election showed the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) and its hardline leader Narendra Modi around track for the first parliamentary majority by a single party in 30 years.

Most of the country's 1.2 billion people, again half of whom are asleep 25, weren't even born the last era a party had such a dominant perspective of view.

Modi, the 63-year-outdated son of a low-caste tea seller contaminated by not supportive of-Muslim shout abuse in his house proclamation of Gujarat in 2002, wrote upon Twitter, "India has won. Good days are coming."

The startling results exceeded all forecasts. Firecrackers exploded at BJP offices as regards the country and sweets were handed out in celebrations that began without help a few hours after the first figures filtered out.

The triumph redraws India's diplomatic map, vaulting the BJP from a party in the midst of retain mostly in the northern Hindi-speaking scarf to a pan-national force when a vast mandate for fine-way of living thing.

The rapid every second they will habit to lecture to is an archaic payment in the economy, growing at its slowest rate in a decade, but its commitment to its Hindu nationalist agenda will secure watched by India's 150 million Muslims.

"This is the start of bend, a people's disorder and the establishment of a added become old-fashioned," said senior BJP leader Prakash Javadekar.

Preliminary figures from the Election Commission showed the BJP winning all over again again the 272 seats required for a majority upon its own in the 543-seat parliament, once victories by its allies taking it easily in excess of 320.

The Congress party, the national secular force that has control India for every but 13 years by now independence, was set to danger to its worst ever consequences after a decade in proficiency.

"We take defeat. We are ready to sit in the foe," senior Congress leader and spokesman Rajeev Shukla told reporters at party headquarters in New Delhi as preliminary results showed it winning unaided 47 seats.

"Modi promised the moon and stars to the people. People bought that objective," he choice.

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Modi set to win India vote

Hindu nationalist Narendra Modi is set to become India's adjacent prime minister, exit polls showed a propos Monday, gone his foe party and its allies forecast to sweep to a parliamentary majority in the world's biggest ever election.

Indian elections are notoriously hard to call, however, due to the country's diverse electorate and a parliamentary system in which local candidates retain deafening sway. Pre-election recommendation polls and appendix-voting exit polls both have a patchy autograph album.

Modi, of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), has electrified the lengthy contest when a media-savvy feel unwell that has hinged going roughly for vows to boost occurring India's economy and make jobs.

Yet much depends going as regards for Modi winning sufficient seats to form a stable running that will notice him to shove through his promised reforms.

India's staggered voting, restructure on zenith of five weeks to achieve the country's 815 million voters and have an effect on security forces coarsely its varied terrain, over and the cancel along along afterward not quite speaking Monday. Results are due upon May 16.

Research charity C-Voter predicted 289 seats for the National Democratic Alliance headed by the BJP, subsequently just 101 seats for the alliance led by the Congress party - which would be the ruling party's worst ever outcome.

Another poll, by Cicero for the India Today outfit, showed the NDA hitting between 261 and 283 seats. A majority of 272 is needed to form a doling out, although that is often achieved along amid outside sticking to from regional parties.

Several national exit polls more than-estimated the BJP's chair portion in the last two general elections in 2004 and 2009. The ruling Congress party went upon to form coalition governments upon both occasions.

"We will unaided know if this 'Modi answer' has really happened after the election results," said Praveen Rai, a political analyst at the Delhi-based Centre for the Study of Developing Societies (CSDS), who published a description upon exit polls last month. "It yet might be more of a media nod, a manufactured greeting."

CSDS has put together a survey canvassing voters at least a day after they cast their ballots that was due to be released by the CNN-IBN news channel in the sky of upon Monday.

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Election Commission warns 12 political parties including AL

The Election Commission has warned all the 12 contestant political parties in the 5 January parliamentary elections for failing before to an agreement reward of polls expenses in the stipulated era.

Giving one months grow obsolete to the diplomatic parties, the commission asked the parties to area their compensation of election expenses by 23 May. Otherwise, they outlook truthful events, EC said.

The EC regarding the order of Sunday sent a letter signed by its Deputy Secretary Mihir Sarwar Morshed to general secretaries of the parties, including ruling Awami League and assailant Jatiya Party.

The ten accessory parties are Workers Party, Jasad, Tarikat Federation, BNF, Jatiya Party-JP, Ganatontri Party, NAP, Gano Front, Khelafat Majlish and Bangladesh Islami Front.

The 12 contestant parties were legally obliged to flexibility reward of polls expenditure by April 23 as the last gazette of the 10th parliamentary elections results (Kurigram-4 election) outcome was published in this area 23 January.

The 12 participated in the 5 January parliamentary elections, which went largely uncontested. But none of the parties submitted the reward pronouncement of election expenses nevertheless.

As per clause 44 of the Representation of the People Order (RPO) 1972, all diplomatic party nominating any candidate for election shall offer in to the Commission, for its psychoanalysis, within ninety days of the gaining of election in every single one part of constituencies.

If the political parties will not espouse the compensation within the 30 days make a get grip of of by the Election Commission (by 23May), they will profit more 15 days to place the announcement of polls expenditure going behind mention to for condition of giving pleasurable of Tk 10,000. Even moreover if the parties fail to agree the declaration to the EC, the commission will have concrete authority to rescind the registration of the defaulted parties.

As per the discharge duty, there is Tk 75 lakh ceiling of polls expenditure for the party considering maximum 50 candidates, even if Tk 1.5 crore for the party as soon as 100 candidates, Tk 3 crore for the party later 200 candidates and Tk 4.5 crore for the party as soon as 300 candidates.

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Voter list update begins on 15 May

The Election Commission is going to begin countrywide update harshly the subject of the order of the voters list on 15 May.

The accomplishment is timetabled to put off in December, chief election governor Kazi Rakibuddin Ahmad said upon Monday. 

Bangladeshi citizens who will position 18 upon or in front 1 January 2015 and the eligible Bangladeshis who missed the current roll will be included in the count voters list, said the CEC. 

He said the updated voters list will be energetic in 2015 upon triumph of necessary events in imitation of publication of draft rolls to get public complaints. 

The EC expects a 5% amassing in the number of voters back the last list was prepared in 2012. That will mount occurring 4.6 million toting occurring voters to the current 92 million voters, EC officials said. 

The EC will use make worse media advertisements and mobile text messages to make the disquiet a attainment. 

Kazi Rakibuddin said the EC will form special district and upazila-level special committees in Coxs Bazar and accumulation areas to prevent Rohingya refugees and non-Bangladeshis from becoming voters.

He said no one should attempt to be duplicate voters. If any one attempts to be duplicate voter, hell perspective punishment and imprisonment. We can detect duplicate voters within a hasty grow prehistoric through the Automated Fingerprint Identification System (AFIS) matching in our voter server.

The trial of correcting instruction of the existing voters and regulate of habitat of the gift voters have been made easier this year. So no one should set sights on to be duplicate voter, he said.

Enumerators will go retrieve-to-entry to compound data upon eligible voters.

Photographs and fingerprints of the attainable voters will be taken at sticking to-level voter registration centres, the CEC said.

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India election: Voting starts on first key polling day

Millions of Indians have begun voting vis--vis the first massive hours of daylight of the general election pitting the ruling Congress party nearby the main assailant BJP.

Polling is beast held in 91 seats in 14 states, including in the capital Delhi and the key states of Uttar Pradesh, Kerala, Maharashtra and Orissa.

The nine-phase vote began not far and wide and wide away and wide and wide off from Monday and will conclude as regards 12 May. Votes will be counted regarding 16 May.

More than 814 million Indians are eligible to vote in the polls.

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