New Delhi: The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) created an electoral record by becoming the first party in 30 years to win a majority on its own in the Parliament elections in India.
This is in sharp contrast with the mere two seats that they had won in the 1984 general elections, its first experience after coming out of the shadow of the Janata Party.
In the so called Janatha Party, former Jana Sangh had merged to display a joint fight in the 1977 general elections conducted after the national emergency.
The Congress, in fact, had swept the 1984 polls, in favor of a sympathy wave that created following the assassination of then prime minister Indira Gandhi which enabled her son Rajiv Gandhi to gather a record tally of 414 seats in the Parliament.
The 2014 elections has been considered as the worst performance of the Congress among the 16 general elections held so far.

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