Prime Minister Narendra Modi's ruling Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) was in first place at 38.1 per cent with three-quarters of votes counted in India's election, national election commission data showed Tuesday.
The commission's figures showed that the BJP and its coalition allies were leading in at least 286 seats above the 272 needed for a lower house parliamentary majority but significantly lower than their joint total of 353 after the last election in 2019.
