Indian election results 2014 : Modi Wins

Eight months after the BJP named him its prime ministerial candidate, Narendra Modi, proved he was valuable for the opposition the party originally encountered over its decision. Modi has delivered the BJP's best result ever, giving it more than the 272 seats it needs to form a government.  This is the first parliamentary majority by a single party since 1984.

In the course of a two-hour conversation four-and-a-half months ago, Narendra Modi told an editor of TOI, when asked how many seats he thought BJP would get: "This is not about arithmetic, this is about aspiration and passion. Ye toh tsunami aane wala hai (there is an electoral tsunami coming)." On Friday morning, as the manpower  of the Modi burst took the nation by storm, the word that trended to the top of social media was, not surprisingly, 'tsunamo'. It was a landslide for BJP, and a humiliating rout of Gandhi-led Congress.

In the end it just took a phone call from President Barack Obama to Narendra Modi with an invitation to visit Washington to reset a US policy that had shunned India's next prime minister for over a decade.

Mr Obama's invitation to Mr Modi "to visit Washington at a mutually agreeable time to further strengthen our bilateral relationship" was given as part of a congratulatory call made on Friday for the "Bharatiya Janata Party's success in India's historic election."

"The President noted he looks forward to working closely with Mr. Modi to fulfill the extraordinary promise of the US-India strategic partnership, and they agreed to continue expanding and deepening the wide-ranging cooperation between the two democracies," the White House said in a readout of the call.