Under the leadership of PM Narendra Modi, BJP has remained far from majority on its own. However, NDA is preparing to form the government with full majority. With this, Narendra Modi is going to become PM for the third consecutive time. In this case, he will equal the first PM Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru. Nehru became PM three times in a row by winning in 1952, 1957 and 1962. Even Indira Gandhi does not have such a record.
Despite being in power for 10 years, this performance of PM Modi’s party BJP cannot be called bad. Coalition politics has been going on in the country since the 1990s. It was BJP which broke it in 2014 and then in 2019 under the leadership of PM Modi. However, in 2024, BJP has been reduced to 240 seats.
along with the party performance PM Modi PM Modi has suffered a setback in his parliamentary constituency. The margin of victory of PM Modi in Varanasi has reduced significantly compared to 2019. This time PM Modi has won from Varanasi by a margin of only 152,513 votes. In percentage, this figure is only 13.49. If we look at the margin of victory, PM Modi has come to the lowest position among the sitting Prime Ministers.
Rajiv got the biggest victory
According to a Hindustan Times report, Rajiv Gandhi’s victory in 1984 was the biggest in terms of vote margin. At that time, the margin of victory was 72.18 percent. Then in 1989, Rajiv Gandhi’s victory margin became 50.22 percent. At number three was PM Modi’s victory in 2019. At that time, the margin was 45.22 percent.
then in 1971 Indira Gandhi The victory margin of Atal Bihari Vajpayee in 2004 was 37.74 percent. The victory margin of Indira Gandhi in 1967 was 35.24 percent, the victory margin of Jawaharlal Nehru in 1962 was 33.46 percent, the victory margin of Charan Singh in 1980 was 33.33 percent, the victory margin of PV Narasimha Rao in 1996 was 30.97 percent.
Similarly, in 1957 Jawaharlal Nehru The margin of victory of 21.88 percent, the margin of victory of Nehru in 1952 was 19.49 percent, the margin of victory of Atal Bihari Vajpayee in 1999 was 16.4 percent.
Two exceptions
There are two exceptions to this. First, when elections were held in 1977 after the Emergency, Indira Gandhi lost while being the Prime Minister. Second, the exception is Chandrashekhar. His victory margin in 1991 was only 12.78 percent which was less than the current victory margin of PM Modi. However, at that time Chandrashekhar was a caretaker PM. His government had lost the majority and mid-term elections were being held in the country.
Tags: Lok Sabha Election 2024, Lok Sabha Elections, PM Modi
FIRST PUBLISHED : June 6, 2024, 15:23 IST