Published: May 23, 2019
The hugely popular BJP Hindu nationalist leader brushes aside economic woes to claim another term
Profile: from impoverished tea seller to master of political theatre
India’s prime minister, Narendra Modi, has claimed a landslide victory in national elections that cements the Hindu nationalist leader as the country’s most formidable politician in decades.
Modi’s ruling Bharatiya Janata party (BJP) had been expected to easily form a governing coalition with smaller allies, but official results showed the party ahead in at least 300 seats, comfortably beyond the 272 seats required for a majority in the lower house of parliament.
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