India's Bharatiya Janata Party appears to have won the country's general election.

With exit polls showing that the BJP and its allies have racked up anything from 249 to 340 seats out of a total of 545 seats in the lower house of parliament. However, it's worth noting that Indian exit polls can be wildly inaccurate. Still, shares continued to rally at the prospect of a stable business-friendly government led by BJP party leader Narendra Modi.