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Despite Mamata Banerjee's spirited fight, the BJP is expected to win more than a dozen of the state's 42 seats, says the poll of polls, an aggregate of exit polls.

Exit Polls: The Congress may be unable to build on its election victory in the three heartland states of Rajasthan, Madhya Pradesh and Chhattisgarh, exit polls predicted as the mammoth seven-phase Lok Sabha election came to an end this evening. In all three states, the Congress will not win more than 13 seats, an aggregate of exit polls predicted.

The Congress-DMK alliance may trump the rival alliance of AIADMK and the BJP, Poll of Polls, an aggregate of exit polls, today said

Three government employees on election duty in Himachal Pradesh died due to different ailments on Saturday, a state election official said.

Congress president Rahul Gandhi launched a fresh attack on the Election Commission just as the Lok Sabha polls ended today, alleging that it had yielded to the ruling BJP despite having the constitutional responsibility of providing a level playing field to all political parties.

The BJP-Shiv Sena alliance will get the maximum number of seats in Maharashtra, NDTV's Poll of Polls, an aggregate of exit polls, predicted today. The alliance, however, may lose some constituencies to the rival alliance of the Congress and Sharad Pawar's NCP.

The Grand Alliance of Akhilesh Yadav and Mayawati may not be able to stop the BJP march through Uttar Pradesh --the state that sends the maximum number of lawmakers to the Lok Sabha, predict early exit polls. But among opposition parties, they might fare the best against the BJP, the poll of polls show.

The bodies of two Indian mountaineers, who died in Nepal due to high altitude sickness near the summit of Mount Kanchenjunga during an expedition to the world's third tallest peak, have been recovered and flown to Kathmandu, officials said in the Nepali capital on Sunday.

Decked in his wedding attire, bridegroom reached the polling booth to a pleasant surprise of election officials, security personnel and fellow voters in the queue and cast his votes.

Punjab Chief Minister Captain Amarinder Singh today said that his cabinet minister, Navjot Singh Sidhu, "probably" wants to replace him as the head of the state government. His remark comes a day after Mr Sidhu said he firmly stands by his wife in a war of words with the Chief Minister over being denied a party ticket in the just-concluded Lok Sabha elections.

Andhra Pradesh Chief Minister Chandrababu Naidu today claimed that Prime Minister Narendra Modi's visit to the Kedarnath shrine in Uttarakhand on Saturday was a violation of the poll code, and asked the Election Commission to ensure that "continuous telecast of his private activities" is stopped with immediate effect.

Bengal's BJP candidate Anupam Hazra has accused the ruling Trinamool Congress of placing a special mark against its election symbol in the Electronic Voting Machine to draw the voters' eye.

Mayawati will meet with Congress president Rahul Gandhi and his mother Sonia Gandhi tomorrow in what is seen as a significant outreach after the Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP) chief carried out an acrimonious campaign that was unsparing of the Congress.

Voting in one of India's most acrimonious elections in decades has endedafter seven long rounds over a month-and-a-half. The results will be declared on Thursday, May 23, but before that, exit polls will attempt to predict how Prime Minister Narendra Modi's ruling BJP, Rahul Gandhi's Congress, their allies and other parties are likely to score.

General Elections 2019: Poll of polls - Northeast. All the states combined in the northeast, including Assam, send 25 lawmakers to the Lok Sabha