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BJP, allies get majority
Sonia wins in Bellary, Laloo trails
New Delhi, Oct 7 (PTI) — The BJP-led National Democratic Alliance (NDA) secured a simple majority in the 13th Lok Sabha, bagging 285 of 515 seats, results for which were declared till 5 pm IST today.

Prominent winners
and losers

NEW DELHI: Prime Minister Atal Behari Vajpayee gives the victory sign after being elected from Lucknow on Wednesday. — PTI

Information available for 536 Seats (at 5 pm IST)
Alliance	Lead	Won	Total
BJP+	8	285	293
INC+	7	127	134
Left +	0	42	42
Other	6	61	67

Big jolt to Dal (B) in Punjab
CHANDIGARH, Oct 6 — For the Parkash Singh Badal-led Akali Dal it was a big jolt in Punjab. The party, which along with its coalition partner the BJP had captured all the 13 seats there in 1998, lost all but three. Its most humiliating defeat was in the prestigious Faridkot seat. Here Mr Jagmeet Singh Brar, defeated a few times earlier, captured the seat with a thin margin of 5,164 votes.
Punjab winners' list

Pawan Bansal wins in Chandigarh

INLD-BJP win all Haryana seats
CHANDIGARH, Oct 6 — The Vajpayee-Chautala magic has worked in Haryana. It is a clean sweep for the INLD-BJP combine. The Congress, the HVP and the BSP have been routed. Invincible Bhajan Lal suffered the first electoral defeat of his over 30-year-long political career. State Congress chief Bhupinder Singh Hooda lost the thrice held seat of Rohtak to a political novice by a huge margin of 1,44,693 votes.

BJP-HVC sweeps HP poll
SHIMLA, Oct 6 — The ruling BJP-HVC combine made a clean sweep winning all the four Lok Sabha seats by massive margins in Himachal Pradesh today.

NC gets 4 seats in J&K, BJP 2
SRINAGAR, Oct 6 — Amidst opposition allegations of "rigging and bogus voting", ruling National Conference (NC) bagged 4 Lok Sabha seats in Jammu and Kashmir while the BJP got the remaining two. The NC, which had three members in the last Lok Sabha, retained Srinagar, Baramula and Ladakh seats and wrested Anantnag from the Congress. Final tally chart

BJP's clean sweep in Delhi
NEW DELHI, Oct 6 — The Bharatiya Janata Party continued to maintain its stranglehold over Delhi, making a clean sweep of the seven parliamentary seats.

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Congress set to win in Karnataka
BANGALORE, Oct 6 — The opposition Congress appeared to be surging ahead to a spectacular victory in the Assembly elections in Karnataka, bagging 67 of the 110 seats for which results were announced so far.

Analysis

Tale of two sons, one ex-CM
CHANDIGARH, Oct 6 — The strategic states of Punjab, Haryana and Himachal Pradesh provide an interesting study in the voters' behaviour during the mid-term election to the 13th Lok Sabha. In Punjab, the supposedly omnipresent post-Kargil "Vajpayee factor" could not save Mr Parkash Singh Badal's SAD-BJP combine from a shattering defeat. Barring the Tarn Taran, Ferozepore and Gurdaspur seats, it has failed to retain the tremendous advantage it had acquired in the 1998 general election.

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Science Tribune section

IN PASSING

No, it is not an earthquake. Your heart seems to be beating faster!

by Sandeep Joshi

Editor, Printer and Publisher : Hari Jaisingh
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