New Delhi: Most exit polls have predicted a third consecutive term for Prime Minister Narendra Modi.
If elected to power again in 2024, PM Modi is likely to equal the record of former Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru, the only PM to be elected thrice consecutively.
Pandit Nehru served as the Prime Minister for 17 years- from 1947 to 1964. He is the longest-serving prime minister of the nation, according to a government website. The congress alone had won 371 seats in the 1957 Lok Sabha Elections, when Nehru had returned to power after the first elections in 1951, as per the Elections Commission’s data.
This was the highest number of Lok Sabha seats (371) any one political party has won in the Lok Sabha elections so far. However, exit polls in the 2024 Lok Sabha Elections have predicted around 350-370 seats collectively for the BJP and its allies, and not just for the PM Modi-led BJP.