Lotus in full bloom

 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.

 Vasundhara Raje in Rajasthan, Uma Bharati in Madhya Pradesh, and Raman Singh in Chhattisgarh are likely to be named chief ministers.

 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.

 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.

 In Rajasthan, the BJP won 119 seats. The Congress managed a mere 56.

 In the first ever elections in Chhattisgarh, the BJP secured absolute majority with 50 seats in the 90-member House. The Congress got 36.

 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