Early trends: UPA leads
Counting of votes polled in the Lok Sabha began across the country. June 2 is the constitutional deadline for forming the new govt. Elections 2009: Full Coverage
By PTI |
NEW DELHI: UPA was ahead of the NDA in early trends for 172 seats in the Lok Sabha elections as counting of votes in the Lok Sabha elections was taken up today.
The Congress-led UPA was leading in 73 constituencies including in Kerala and Rajasthan while the BJP-led NDA was ahead in 59 seats including in Karnataka, Bihar and Himachal Pradesh.
The Left was ahead in four while 'Others' were leading in 36.
Congress' Rahul Gandhi was ahead in Amethi, Sachin Pilot(Ajmer), P Chidambaram (Sivaganga) and Shashi Tharoor(Thiruvananthapuram) were also ahead. Prominent BJP candidates who were leading included Jaswant Singh from Darjeeling.
Congress's Janardhan Poojari and Margaret Alva were trailing in Karnataka. Commerce and Industry minister Kamal Nath was trailing in Chhindwara in Madhya Pradesh while former prime minister H D Deve Gowda was ahead in Hassan in Karnataka.
RJD supremo Lalu Prasad was leading in Pataliputra but trailing in Siwan in Bihar.
Among the Congress candidates who were leading in early trends were Priya Dutt(Mumbai North), Jyotiraditya Scindia(Guna), Pranab Mukherjee(Jangipur) and Sandeep Dikshit(East Delhi).
BJP's prime ministerial candidate L K Advani was ahead in Gandhinagar in Gujarat. His party colleagues Vinod Khanna, Sushma Swaraj and Varun Gandhi were leading from Gurdaspur, Vidisha and Pilibhit respectively.
The Congress-led UPA was leading in 73 constituencies including in Kerala and Rajasthan while the BJP-led NDA was ahead in 59 seats including in Karnataka, Bihar and Himachal Pradesh.
The Left was ahead in four while 'Others' were leading in 36.
Congress' Rahul Gandhi was ahead in Amethi, Sachin Pilot(Ajmer), P Chidambaram (Sivaganga) and Shashi Tharoor(Thiruvananthapuram) were also ahead. Prominent BJP candidates who were leading included Jaswant Singh from Darjeeling.
Congress's Janardhan Poojari and Margaret Alva were trailing in Karnataka. Commerce and Industry minister Kamal Nath was trailing in Chhindwara in Madhya Pradesh while former prime minister H D Deve Gowda was ahead in Hassan in Karnataka.
RJD supremo Lalu Prasad was leading in Pataliputra but trailing in Siwan in Bihar.
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Among the Congress candidates who were leading in early trends were Priya Dutt(Mumbai North), Jyotiraditya Scindia(Guna), Pranab Mukherjee(Jangipur) and Sandeep Dikshit(East Delhi).
BJP's prime ministerial candidate L K Advani was ahead in Gandhinagar in Gujarat. His party colleagues Vinod Khanna, Sushma Swaraj and Varun Gandhi were leading from Gurdaspur, Vidisha and Pilibhit respectively.
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