BJP candidate O Rajagopal gains a margin of 10,000 votes over Cong's Shashi Tharoor in Thiruvananthapuram. 34 per cent votes have been counted.

Congress's Sandeep Dikshit, one of the first candidates to admit defeat a day before counting began says: We are losing in Delhi. Anti-UPA wave.

Narendra Modi's mother Heeraben, says of her son, set to become India's next PM: "He has my blessings, he will will lead India to the road of development."