LS Poll Results: Khela happened in Bengal and UP? BJP below 300-mark

• Exit Polls have predicted a third term for BJP-led NDA government
• While BJP has boasted '440-paar', INDIA claimed they will bag 295 seats
• Close fights are being witnessed in several key states

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• 2:00 pm: N Chandrababu Naidu's TDP is well on course to register a landslide victory in Andhra Pradesh assembly elections.
• 1:50 pm: Congress leader Jairam Ramesh has alleged that the counting of votes is Uttar Pradesh is witnessing a delay.
• 12:30 pm: Congress candidates are leading in seven Lok Sabha seats – Amethi, Rae Bareli, Sitapur, Saharanpur, Barabanki, Allahabad, and Amroha.
• 12:03 pm: Falling short of the majority mark in Lok Sabha as per emerging trends, the BJP could be at the mercy of its allies JD(U) and TDP, leading on 30 seats together.
• 11:43 am: The BJP is leading in 17 Lok Sabha seats of Odisha while the ruling BJD is leading in just three seats. The BJP is also likely to form government in Odisha for the first time as it is leading in 147 assembly constituencies.
• 11:35 am: Bihar chief minister Nitish Kumar's JD(U) is leading on 14 Lok Sabha seats while ally BJP is leading on 11 seats in the state. Bihar sends 40 MPs to Lok Sabha.
• 11:30 am: The Trinamool Congress (TMC) is leading on 29 Lok Sabha seats while the BJP is leading in 11 seats. Congress and CPI(M) is leading in one seat each.
• 11:12 am: The Bharatiya Janata Party is looking at a major setback in Uttar Pradesh as it leads on 37 seats, down from 61 in 2019 Lok Sabha elections. Union minister Smriti Irani trailing from Amethi against Congress candidate Kishori Lal Sharma, a close of the Gandhi family.
• 10:58 am: BJP's Santosh Kushwaha is locked in a close battle with Pappu Yadav, who is contesting as an independent candidate. Kushwaha is leading with a slender margin of 576 votes, according to EC data.
• 10:50 am: Prime Minister Narendra Modi has a lead of 21,629 votes over Congress's Ajay Rai in Varanasi LS seat in Uttar Pradesh, as per ECI.
• 10:35 am: In Tehri Garhwal, BJP’s Mala Rajya Lakshmi Shah is leading by 19,608 votes. In Garhwal, BJP’s Anil Baluni is leading by 26,547 votes. BJP’s Ajay Tamta is leading by 54,871 votes in Almora. BJP’s Ajay Bhatt is leading by 1,14,305 votes in Nainital-Udhamsingh Nagar seat. In Haridwar, BJP’s Trivendra Singh Rawat is leading by 13,763.
• 10:29 am: N Chandrababu Naidu's TDP is leading in 15 Lok Sabha seats of Andhra Pradesh while its allies, BJP and JnP, are leading in three and two Lok Sabha seats, respectively.
• 10:25 am: RJD leader Misa Bharti is leading from Patliputra by over 3,100 votes against her nearest rival Ram Kripal Yadav of the BJP.
• 10:03 am: In Chandni Chowk, Congress' JP Aggarwal is leading by 3,211 votes against BJP's Praveen Khandelwal. In East Delhi, BJP's Harsh Malhotra is leading by a margin of 6,736 votes against AAP's Kuldeep Kumar. In north east Delhi, BJP's Manoj Tiwari is leading with a margin of 15,347 votes against Congress' Kanhaiya Kumar.
• 9:58 am:  Prime Minister Narendra Modi has taken a slender lead of 436 votes against Congress's Ajay Rai.
• 9:55 am:  NDA and INDIA in neck-and-neck battle in Uttar Pradesh, with both coalitions leading in 39 seats, as per NDTV.
• 9:53 am: Congress general secretary Jairam Ramesh took a dig at Prime Minister Narendra Modi for trailing against Congress candidate Ajay Rai in early trends.
• 9:50 am: The BJP is leading in 14 Lok Sabha seat of Odisha, while Naveen Patnaik's Biju Janata Dal is leading in nine seats. Congress is leading in two Lok Sabha constituencies.
• 9:48 am: BJP's Rajeev Bhardwaj is leading in Kangra by 44,263 votes. BJP candidate Kangna Ranaut is leading from the Mandi Lok Sabha seat with 13,356 votes. Union minister Anurag Singh Thakur is leading from Hamirpur with 25,877 votes. BJP candidate Suresh Kumar Kashyap is leading in Shimla by 17,614 votes.
• 9:37 am: Dr Balbir of AAP is leading against Dr Dharamvira Gandhi of Congress by 667 votes after two rounds of counting. Shiromani Akali Dal leader Harsimrat Badal is leading from Bathinda. Independent candidate Sarabjeet Singh Khalsa, son of Indira Gandhi's assassin Beant Singh, is leading by 4,085 votes in Faridkot.
• 9:25 am: Prime Minister Narendra Modi is trailing by over 6,000 votes in Varanasi against Congress candidate Ajay Rai, according to Election Commission.
• 9:20 am:  According to initial trends, BJP is leading in one seat in Kerala. Congress-led UDF is leading in six seats while LDF is leading four seats.
• 9:17 am: Jailed pro-Khalistan leader Amritpal Singh is leading by 11,919 votes from Khadoor Sahib.
• 9:14 am: Kumari Selja of Congress is leading by 403 votes against BJP's Ashok Tanwar in ballot paper counting. Former Haryana CM Manohar Lal Khattar is trailing by 3,371 votes from Karnal. Deepender Hooda of Congress is leading by 3,371 votes from Rohtak.
• 9:12 am: Amol Kolhe of NCP (SP) is leading in the first round against NCP’s Shivajirao Adhalrao from Shirur Lok Sabha constituency. Congress rebel and independent candidate Vishal Patil is leading against BJP’s Sanjaykaka Patil in Sangli Lok Sabha seat. Ravindra Dhangekar of Congress is leading against BJP’s Murlidhar Mohol from Pune. Congress candidate Chhatrapati Shahu is leading against Shiv Sena’s Sanjay Mandlik in Kolhapur.
• 9:06 am: BJP's Giriraj Singh is leading from Begusarai. Congress's Nakul Nath is trailing from Chhindwara. Union minister Sarbananda Sonowal is leading in Dibrugarh. Congress's Gaurav Gogoi is trailing in Jorhat
• 9:03 am:  Samajwadi Party candidate Dimple Yadav leads Mainpuri against BJP's Jaiveer Singh.
• 8:58 am: BJP's Mandi candidate Kangana Ranaut leads by 2,815 votes against Congress candidate Vikramaditya Singh.
• 8:51 am: LJP(Ram Vilas) leader Chirag Paswan is leading from the Hajipur Lok Sabha seat in early trends.
• 8:49 am: BJP candidate Arun Govil, who played Lord Ram in the popular television serial Ramayan, is trailing in Meerut Lok Sabha seat.
•  NDA and INDA bloc are neck-and-neck in early trends,
• 8:41 am: Congress candidate Charanjit Singh Channi is leading by 2,383 votes in Jalandhar, while Manish Tewari, is leading in Chandigarh.
• 8:38 am:  National Conference candidates are leading in all three Lok Sabha seats in Kashmir.
• 8:36 am: Supriya Sule of Sharad Pawar's NCP-SP is leading against her sister-in-law Sunetra Pawar of NCP in Baramati,
• 8:30 am: Former Haryana chief minister Manohar Lal Khattar is trailing from Karnal Lok Sabha seat. Khattar is up against Divyanshu Budhiraja of Congress and Devender Kadian of Jannayak Janta Party.
• 8:29 am:  In the Lok Sabha Elections 2014, the NDA was estimated to win around 257-340 seats.