Politics

The Modi wave was evident as the results poured out during the Friday finale with the NDA taking away over 320 seats in the Lok Sabha.

Polling for 17 Lok Sabha and 119 Assembly seats in Telangana region was held in April 30 and for 25 Lok Sabha and 175 Assembly seats across 13 districts in Seemandhra on May 7.

In North Goa seat, former chief minister Ravi Naik, fielded by the Congress to cut into the numerically powerful Bhandari caste vote bank, lost to BJP's Shripad Yesso Naik by a huge margin.

Those in the fray from Gujarat include Narendra Modi, who contested from Vadodara, besides party veteran LK Advani from his traditional seat of Gandhinagar.

Amarinder Singh was locked in a close battle for Amritsar with Bharatiya Janata Party's Arun Jaitley.

CBI Director Ranjit Sinha also held his first meeting last evening with the SIT during which an action plan was drawn up to probe the matter.

"The UPA will form the government third time, under Rahul Gandhi, I believe," Narayanasamy said.

In a statement, Obama said that he is looking forward to the formation of a new government in India once the election results are announced.

The ban was lifted soon after Bikram Singh took over as Army Chief and appointed Suhag as the Eastern Army Commander.

The polling, held amid massive security arrangements, was largely peaceful.

The SIT will first collect all relevant documents before registering the FIR in the matter.

The family members had recently objected to his using the name of Netaji and his slogans to woo voters.

The six seats where polling would be held are Valmikinagar, Paschim Champaran, Purvi Champaran, Vaishali, Gopalganj(SC) and Siwan.

Gohil had said, "He belongs to rich and prosperous Modh-Ghanchis who were never given any kind of reservation nor were included in OBCs before Modi became CM.

Javadekar said Rahul-Mamata tie-up would not impress people as "they are not fools".

The BJP has promised time-bound environmental clearances and better land acquisition policies to promote manufacturing.