Indian prime minister Narendra Modi has claimed victory for the third term in the World’s longest democratic exercise.
Modi wrote on social media platform X, said “people have placed their faith on National Democratic Alliance (NDA) for the third consecutive time,” adding that this is a historic feat in India’s history.
GLOBAL TRACKER learned that counting still underway in the six-weeks long election Marathon.
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The election which 640 million people cast their votes saw Modi’s alliance winning with surprising narrow majority.
Unlike in the last two elections, Modi’s Hindu nationalist Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) will need its alliance partners to cross the 272 majority mark in the 543-seat lower house of parliament.
The BJP itself was leading in 239 seats, compared with 303 at the last election in 2019, but the opposition INDIA alliance led by Rahul Gandhi’s centrist Congress party was leading in over 230 seats, higher than expected.