Election result 2024: As the Congress seems to be faring better this time in the Lok Sabha elections as compared to 2019, senior Congress leader Salman Khurshid on Tuesday said that the party is hopeful of gaining more seats as counting of votes is not over yet.
“Those who had said that we (Congress) will not cross the 50-mark, tell them that it has already happened and now we will see if that number reaches above 290. We had told earlier that we will try to achieve it (majority). The shop has not shut yet and counting is still on and no one knows who will align with whom. The game is not over,” said the former external affairs minister.
The Congress is close to 100 seats and the INDIA bloc is at 230 according to current trends after multiple rounds of counting.
Meanwhile, Rajya Sabha MP Kapil Sibal urged the counting agents to stay undeterred until the last round of vote-counting is complete.
“I request the counting agents to not issue certificates of victory till the counting of votes is complete…The counting of postal ballots should take place before the penultimate round…I request the Election Commission of India to constantly update the numbers…They will not even cross the mark of 303 Lok Sabha seats…Exit polls were looking like a uniform exit poll,” he told a news agency.
On the other hand, actor-turned-politician Raj Babbar, who contested from Gurgaon on a Congress ticket, exuded confidence even as early trends show him trailing from the seat on Tuesday.
“Counting is going very well. The public’s decision will come by the evening. The people of Gurgaon constituency are moving forward,” he told a news agency.
