The earlier best by BJP was 182 seats in the 1999 Lok Sabha polls when the party formed the government led by Atal Behari Vajpayee. Top BJP leaders including L K Advani and Rajnath Singh congratulated Modi for the party's electoral victory.
Buoyed by the party's stellar performance, celebrations started at BJP's Delhi headquarters right from the time initial trends started trickling in and workers and leaders danced to the beats of drums and distributed sweets.
Modi has won the Vadodara seat with a huge margin and was leading in Varanasi.
