Rajasthan Chief Minister Ashok Gehlot said the Congress will accept the Lok Sabha election results with "humility", but maintained that exit poll projections have been wrong several times. He also accused the BJP of not doing issue-based politics and trying to polarise voters during the elections ."Whatever the results, we will accept them with humility," Gehlot told reporters.

PM Narendra Modi leading by over 20,000 votes from UP's Varanasi, BJP President Amit Shah leading by over 50,000 votes from Gujarat's Gandhinagar. First-time BJP candidate Tejasvi Surya is leading in Bangalore South constituency against Congress veteran BK Hariprasad. BJP leading in 9 out of 10 seats in Haryana.

Domestic air traffic in India which prides itself for being one of the world's fastest growing aviation markets fell for the first time in 6 years in April, the month that India's oldest airline Jet Airways grounded operations. Jet's grounding however helped bigger rival IndiGo to control 50% of the Indian domestic market, followed at a considerable distance by Air India and SpiceJet.