1 / 7After a high political drama, Shiv Sena chief Uddhav Thackeray took oath as Maharashtra's 19th chief minister, becoming the first from the Thackeray clan to hold the post. (Image: PTI)
2 / 7Sena ditched its old alliance partner in Maharashtra, after a long cold war between the two, and joined the Congress and NCP to keep BJP out of power. (Image: AP)
3 / 7In a historic win, the NDA secured 353 seats in the 2019 Lok Sabha elections, with the BJP alone winning 303 seats, surpassing expectations. (Image: AP)
4 / 7Amit Shah, for the first time, became a minister. Shah entered the Union Cabinet as the home minister, after winning the Gandhinagar seat with over 5.5 lakh votes. (Image: AP)
5 / 7Smriti Irani won in Amethi by 55,120 votes. This was one of the biggest upsets for Congress given that Amethi has been a pocket borough of the Gandhi family.
6 / 7Nirmala Sitharaman became the first full-time female finance minister of India (Image: AP)
7 / 7Rahul Gandhi, for the first time, contested election from the south. He was a candidate from Kerala’s Wayanad and won the seat with a record margin of 431,770 votes. (Image: PTI)
