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| Riding on an anti-incumbency wave that swept the Assembly polls and virtually blew away three Congress Chief Ministers in Rajasthan, Madhya Pradesh and Chhattisgarh, a confident BJP leadership today set a target of getting 300 seats in the Lok Sabha elections on its own and attaining a two-thirds majority with its National Democratic Alliance partners. |
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| Vasundhara Raje in Rajasthan, Uma Bharati in Madhya Pradesh, and Raman Singh in Chhattisgarh are likely to be named chief ministers. |
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| The saffron wave, however, could not dent the Congress in Delhi where the party came back with a two-thirds majority but a reduced tally of 47 in the 70-member House. |
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| Knocking down the 10-year old Digvijay Singh government in Madhya Pradesh, the BJP notched a two-thirds majority in a House of 230. The BJP bagged 166 seats, the Congress 38 and others 17. |
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| In Rajasthan, the BJP won 119 seats. The Congress managed a mere 56. |
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| In the first ever elections in Chhattisgarh, the BJP secured absolute majority with 50 seats in the 90-member House. The Congress got 36. |
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As the results started trickling out, senior BJP leaders, including Deputy Prime Minister LK Advani, BJP President M Venkaiah Naidu and General Secretary Pramod Mahajan and Commerce Minister Arun Jaitley converged on the PM
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