Newly-elected BJP MPs meet today to formally elect PM Modi as their leader

Prime Minister Narendra Modi and BJP President Amit Shah met party veterans Lal Krishna Advani and Murli Manohar Joshi, a day after BJP led NDA secured a landslide victory in Lok Sabha elections. Prime Minister visited Mr Advani's residence and sought his blessings.

In a tweet, Mr Modi said the BJP's successes today are possible because greats like Mr Advani and Mr Joshi spent decades building the party and providing a fresh ideological narrative to the people. Mr. Joshi also congratulated Mr Modi on his victory.

Formation of the new government will kick off after the election commission notification which will have the names of newly elected Lok Sabha MPs.

Once the notification gets President Ram Nath Kovind's approval, the process of constitution of 17th Lok Sabha will



formally begin. Election Commission is likely to meet today to finalise the list of winning candidates to be handed over to the President.

The EC sources said once the list is finalised, the three commissioners will seek an appointment with the president. The term of the present Lok Sabha ends on June 3.

Polls were held in 542 of the 543 seats and the election in Vellore parliamentary seat was cancelled by the Election commission citing excessive use of money power. BJP has won 303 seats surpassing its previous record of 282 in 2014. The BJP-led NDA has secured 351 seats as against their previous tally of 336.

The UPA got 90 seats. This is the first time that a non-Congress party will take over at the Centre for the second term consecutively.