When outgoing Prime Minister Manmohan Singh said, where is the Modi wave?, he may have wanted to say, the wave had become a Tsunami. No wonder, Sonia Gandhi-led Congress received its worst defeat in history from Narendra Modi and BJP

As expected by common people, the Narendra Modi-led Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) has defeated Congress-led United Progressive Alliance (UPA) by a landslide margin. Contrary to media pundits predictions, the BJP even managed to cross the 272 figure, required for majority in the Lok Sabha, on its own. In fact, in several states, Sonia Gandhi-led Congress could not even win a single seat. Several top guns and stalwarts from Congress and UPA, like ministers Kapil Sibal, Sachin Pilot, Sushilkumar Shinde, Milind Deora, CP Joshi, Pawankumar Bansal, Farooq Abdullah, Praful Patel and corporate honcho-turned politician Nandan Nilekani lost their seats, many of them to BJP. Even Arvind Kejriwal, the founder of Aam Admi Party (AAP) and several of his bigwig party members like Kumar Vishwas, Ashutosh, Yogendra Yadav had to face the defeat.

Courtesy: Election Commission of India Last Updated at 2:57 PM On 16/5/2014

Ever since media came out with its exit polls for the Lok Sabha election 2014, several people, mostly politicians from Congress-led United Progressive Alliance (UPA) were saying that in last two elections, these surveys were proved wrong. Well, all the media and all the survey can't be wrong all the time. In fact, this time, the Narendra Modi'fied' campaign was so powerful that it not only proved exit poll results below estimate but completely swept Congress and its (UPA).

The Congress has accepted its defeat (what else can it do?). Although the BJP was saying that Congress would find it difficult to reach 100 seats, after the verdict, both must be wondering, how this could happen?

Full credit to BJP's clean victory goes to Narendra Modi and his non-stop campaign across the country. Even the Congress and its allies, by passing remarks and provoking Modi, helped the BJP to keep its prime ministerial candidate in the focus throughout the elections.

On the other hand, opposition parties, especially Congress appeared to be divided as to on whom to focus. So it brought Sonia and Rahul Gandhi during the first phase only to be replaced by Priyanka Gandhi Vadra. Unfortunately, none can match the already 'running in full steam' Modi and thus were found to be on the defensive all the time.

During last elections, Congress had won 206 seats in the 543-seat Lok Sabha and was the single largest party. On the other hand, BJP had only 116 seats.