Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi has won a third term, but voters drastically clipped his wings by handing his alliance a narrower margin than predicted.
India's Prime Minister Narendra Modi flashes victory signs as he arrives at the Bharatiya Janata Party headquarters to celebrate the party's win in the country's general election, in New Delhi, on Tuesday.NEW DELHI — Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi has declared an election victory, as his coalition won more than half of parliamentary seats, with votes still being counted.
After the first round of voting in April, however, the governing party's rhetoric became increasingly polarized on religious lines. The opposition INDIA alliance — a coalition of two dozen parties led by the Congress — had pitched the election as a fight to save the country's constitution. Despite one key partner defecting before the polls, the Congress and strong regional parties helped the alliance pick up more seats than predicted. A key victory was in the bellwether state of Uttar Pradesh, where the opposition coalition was leading in nearly half the seats it had lost to the BJP in 2019.
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