New Delhi: A massive Narendra Modi tsunami has swept across India and major tectonic shift has taken place in the country. The BJP-led NDA powered by Modi has for the first time crossed the 300-seat mark with the saffron party alone crossing the half-way mark of 272. It is also the first time since 1984 when the Congress under Rajiv Gandhi had won over 400 seats following the sympathy wave generated by the assassination of Indira Gandhi.
Under Modi government, the alliance partners may become irrelevant and they will most likely have no say in the running of the country.
As expected by the BJP and rightly predicted by the pollsters, the BJP has done remarkably well in the key battle ground states of Uttar Pradesh and Bihar. The BJP has decimated the two main regional satraps Mayawati of the Bahujan Samaj Party and the Mulayam Singh Yadav of the Samajwadi Party in Uttar Pradesh and Nitish Kumar of Janata Dal United in Bihar.
The so-called Lalu 'brake' has failed in Bihar. He has failed to prevent the victory march of Modi in Bihar and the ruling JDU led by Chief Minister Nitish Kumar has been decimated.
The Modi wave has swept other BJP strongholds of Madhya Pradesh, Chhattisgarh, Rajasthan, Gujarat and Jharkhand. The BJP has shocked the AAP in Delhi and neighbouring areas almost decimating the Arvind Kejriwal-led party.
Even Karnataka, which is ruled by the Congress, has gone to the BJP. The return of BS Yeddyurappa and the Modi charishma have helped the party to stage a spectacular comeback in the Lok Sabha polls.
A shocked Assam Chief Minister Tarun Gogoi has resigned after the Congress suffered a huge defeat at the hands of BJP in the Northeastern state where the grand old party was hoping of putting up a good show.
The Modi wave seems to have helped the TDP in Andhra Pradesh, which is surprisingly ahead of YSR Congress Party led by YS Jagan Mohan Reddy. In Telangana, it is in a third position.
In Maharashtra, the BJP-Shiv Sena combine is doing remarkably well.
Even in states like West Bengal, Tamil Nadu, Andhra Pradesh and Kerala, where there is no strong base or support for the BJP, Modi has helped the party to register its presence.
Modi's influence is not limited to only urban and city areas. It has hit even the hinterlands across India.
The RSS, which played a major role in organising BJP's campaign in a systematic way, has several reasons to be happy about its cadre, which has brought the BJP back to power at the Centre after 10 years.
The regional parties have also suffered a huge setback in states like UP, Bihar, Jharkhand, Karnataka, Haryana and other states.
The AAP which directly took on Modi across India has been routed. It has been wiped out in its stronghold of Delhi and its surrounding areas.
Some of the big names of the opposition including those from the Congress have been defeated by Modi-led BJP.
A jubilant, BJP spokesperson Nalin Kohli said "It was expected. We are extremely happy. Congress has been decimated". Narendra Modi's closest aide and UP in charge of the BJP Amit Shah described it as a Modi Tsunami.
Almost all top names of the Congress are not coming out to comment. The Congress spokesperson Randeep Singh Surjewala accepted the defeat saying that the things have gone horribly wrong.
The regional parties who always played a major role at the Centre since 1989 have now become irrelevant at national level.
The Left Front is likely to get its lowest number of seats in its history.
The BJP's campaign against the series of corruption scams seems to have failed a huge dividend for the party in the form of the biggest victory.
Only four regional leaders J Jayalalithaa of AIADMK, Naveen Patnaik of BJD, Mamata Banerjee of TMC and K Chandrashekhara Rao of TRS have managed to stop Modi 'tsunami' in their respective states.
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