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The Congress party is trailing on all the seats it contested in Maharashtra.

According to the trends available till 1 pm, the BJP is ahead on 24 seats while its ally, Shiv Sena, on 20 of the 48 Lok Sabha seats in the state.

Congress ally, the Nationalist Congress Party (NCP) is leading on three seats. However, Parth Pawar, the grand-nephew of party chief Sharad Pawar, is trailing from the Maval seat, from where he made his electoral debut. Early trends showed that sitting Shiv Sena MP Shriran Barne was leading by more than 1 lakh votes.

BJP leader and Union Minister Nitin Gadkari is leading in Nagpur, Shiv Sena’s Sujay Vikhe-Patil, who defected from the Congress, in Ahmednagar, and Unmesh Patil is leading in Jalgaon.

Imtiyaz Jaleel Syed of the All India Majlis-e-Ittehadul Muslimeen (AIMIM) is leading on the Aurangabad seat.

In Mumbai (North), BJP’s Gopal Shetty beats Congress candidate Urmila Matondkar by nearly 3.8 lakh votes.

Matondkar meanwhile filed a complaint with the Election Commission over mismatch in signatures on EVM forms.

“On the form of EVM 17C from Magathane, the signatures and the machine numbers are different. A complaint has been filed with the Election Commission,” she tweeted.

In Mumbai North Central, Poonam Mahajan had a 1.2 lakh-vote lead over Congress candidate Priya Dutt, while in Mumbai North West, Congress candidate Sanjay Nirupam trailed behind Shiv Sena Gajanan Kirtikar by 1.3 lakh votes.

Congress candidate Milind Deora was behind Sena’s Arvind Sawant in Mumbai South by more than 77,000 votes.

Meanwhile, BJP’s Manoj Kotak has a lead of 1,04,882 votes over his NCP rival Sanjay Dina Patil in Mumbai (North-East).

BJP’s Heena Gavit won Nandurbar Lok Sabha seat in Maharashtra by defeating her nearest Congress rival KC Padvi by a margin of 95,629 votes.

In Chandrapur, however, Union Minister Hansraj Ahir was trailing behind Congress candidate Suresh Dhanorkar.

The Sena meanwhile said that there was no challenger to Narendra Modi for “25 years”.

“The whole country is under the spell of Modi,” Sena leader Sanjay Raut said. “We have to accpet that no one can counter Modi for the next 25 years.”

Former Maharashtra chief minister Ashok Chavan lost from Nanded by a margin of 50,000 votes to Pratap Chikhlikar of BJP. Chikhlikar resigned as Sena’s MLA to contest on the BJP ticket against Chavan. Incidentally, Chavan had won from Nanded in 2014.

‘Tsunami’

Maharashtra Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis called the BJP’s victory a Modi tsunami.”Today’s mandate has proved that the people have accepted Modi ji on a larger scale than before. The country has witnessed a Modi tsunami this time. It is for the first time in history that an incumbent government came to power once again with a bigger mandate,” Fadnavis said.