Its an all time high for us and the highest point for the Bharatiya Janata Party, Union Finance Minister Arun Jaitley said on Thursday as the party stormed to power in Assam and saw a major jump in its vote share in Kerala and West Bengal.

Today, this is the highest point in the history of BJP. We have a majority in the Lok Sabha on our own. Along with our partners, we have 15 state governments, which cover over 45 per cent of Indias population, he said.

Jaitley said the geographical expansion of the BJP in Kerala, after Karnataka and Andhra Pradesh in the South, and the 11 per cent vote share in West Bengal were important milestones.

To be able to form a government in Assam with an overwhelming majority and to have governments in Arunachal and Meghalaya is a very important milestone, he said.

The finance minister also hit out at the Congress, saying the national party which hogged centrestage in the national polity until two years ago today has state governments which cover about 7 to 8 per cent of Indias population.

So the stark difference in the size of the two parties is its an all-time high for us and an all-time low for them, he said.

With today's poll results, he expressed the hope for early passage of the Goods and Services Tax Bill about which he was reasonably optimistic.