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According to the Election Commission figures at this hour, the NDA has won or is leading in 294 seats, putting it comfortably past the majority mark of 272 seats required to govern.
Earlier today, reports emerged that members of the governing All India Trinamool Congress (TMC) allegedly blocked the vehicle of Agnimitra Paul, a candidate from the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), in the Medinipur constituency.
At a hearing on Friday, a vacation bench comprising Justices Dipankar Datta and S.C. Sharma took up an application filed by the NGO Association for Democratic Reforms.
The Election Commission's intervention directs the removal of a contentious post by the Karnataka BJP, highlighting concerns over electoral norms.
The sheer size of the electorate in Delhi underscores the importance of this constituency in the overall national electoral landscape.
While election day itself was relatively peaceful, with few disturbances reported, the pre-election period was marred by protests and violence, including arson attacks that resulted in four fatalities. Bangladeshi authorities attributed much of the unrest to the BNP, accusing them of attempting to disrupt the electoral process.
The recent Bhutanese parliamentary election marked a significant political development as Tshering Tobgay's People's Democratic Party (PDP) secured a majority of seats, addressing concerns surrounding the economic crisis in the Himalayan nation.
While Pakistan's Supreme Court granted him bail in a case related to the leak of state secrets just last Friday, a high court had, a day prior, refused to suspend his disqualification from participating in the upcoming elections.