LOK SABHA ELECTIONS 2024: QUICK FACTS AT A GLANCE:

Will the BJP actually manage to fulfill its target of ‘Abki baar 400 paar’ (this time we will cross 400 seats)?

Will the INDIA opposition alliance get the 295 seats that Congress chief Mallikarjun Kharge and its star campaigner Rahul Gandhi claim it will win in the 543-member Lok Sabha? (the halfway mark is 272 seats). We will have to wait and watch.

The results are also expected to spell out the people's verdict on the fate of regional stalwarts like Sharad Pawar and Uddhav Thackeray, whose parties have joined hands with the BJP.

The verdict will also be out on a number of Union ministers, including Piyush Goyal, Bhupender Yadav, Sarbananda Sonowal and Dharmendra Pradhan, all Rajya Sabha members asked by the BJP to contest the polls, and former chief ministers, such as the BJP's Shivraj Singh Chouhan, Basavaraj Bommai, Trivendra Singh Rawat and the Congress's Digvijay Singh and Bhupesh Baghel.

• Total of 543 Lok Sabha seats
• Record number of 64.2 crore voters
• 31.2 crore women voters
• Over 8,000 candidates in fray
• 68,000 monitoring teams
• 1.5 crore polling and security personnel