NEW DELHI: Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi was set for a historic third term on Tuesday (Jun 4), but with a vastly diminished majority in a rare electoral setback for a leader who has
India 's Prime Minister Narendra Modi waves towards his supporters during a roadshow as part of an election campaign, in Kolkata, India , May 28, 2024. NEW DELHI: India n Prime Minister Narendra Modi was set for a historic third term on Tuesday , but with aModi's ruling Bharatiya Janata Party lost its own majority in parliament for the first time in a decade and is dependent on its regional allies to get past the halfway mark required to run the world's largest democracy.
Since he took power 10 years ago, riding his Hindu nationalist base, Modi has been the ruling alliance's unquestioned leader, with concerns growing about what his opponents see as the country's slide towards authoritarianism. His giant cutouts were everywhere, his face on television screens every day as he courted India's 968 million voters with a personal"Modi guarantee" to change their lives.
Under him, India has become the world's fastest-growing major economy and he has said he wants to make it the world's third largest in three years, behind the United States and China. "Modi will now probably enter in what I call the legacy phase of his prime ministership, driving India forward politically, economically, diplomatically and even militarily," said Bilveer Singh, deputy head, department of political science, at the National University of Singapore.
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