NEW DELHI: Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi was preparing on Thursday (Jun 6) to be sworn in for a third term after an
Modi's Hindu-nationalist Bharatiya Janata Party , which ruled for the past decade with an outright majority, had been expecting another landslide win.and sending it into quick-fire talks to lock in a 15-member coalition that would allow it to govern."We all unanimously choose respected NDA leader Narendra Modi as our leader," a BJP-issued alliance statement said. India n media reports said Modi would be sworn in as prime minister on Saturday.
"The friendship between our nations is only growing," Biden wrote, while French President Emmanuel Macron congratulated his"dear friend".and said it was"ready to work" with its neighbour, while the coalition's win was also applauded by Britain, the European Union, Japan and Russia. But the BJP secured 240 seats in parliament, well down from the 303 it won five years ago and 32 short of a majority on its own.
"It is a huge political loss for him personally, apart from being a clear moral defeat as well," he told party leaders at an opposition alliance meeting.
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