The world's biggest election is drawing to a close, as India begins vote-counting after a multi-phase, weeks-long exercise. The National Democratic Alliance, led by Prime Minister Narendra Modi's Bharatiya Janata Party, looks set for another five-year term.
The world's biggest election is drawing to a close, as India begins vote-counting after a multi-phase, weeks-long exercise. The National Democratic Alliance, led by Prime Minister Narendra Modi 's Bharatiya Janata Party, looks set for another five-year term. But so far, his ambitious 400-plus target seems a distant reality. The ruling alliance's numbers have dropped so much that the BJP has yet to cross that magic mark of 272 to form a government on its own.
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