Modi wins again, promises more development
AFP | New Delhi
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Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s political alliance won India’s weeks-long general election yesterday, but the opposition said voters had sent a clear message as his party lost its parliamentary majority for the first time in a decade.
Commentators and exit polls had projected an overwhelming victory for Modi and his party.
The alliance led by Modi’s Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) won an overall parliamentary majority, results on the election commission website showed late yesterday.
But the alliance was projected to secure only 240 seats of its own, well down on the 303 it won at the last polls five years ago, meaning it would need to rely on its alliance partners to pass legislation.
India had given the party and its allies a mandate “for a third consecutive time”, Modi told a crowd of cheering supporters in the capital New Delhi.
“Our third term will be one of big decisions and the country will write a new chapter of development. This is Modi’s guarantee.”
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