Indian vote counters had their work cut out Tuesday as the world's most populous nation entered the final hours of the world's greatest-ever exercise of democratic politics, but it was already clear the victory party for Prime Minister Narendra Modi will likely be a muted affair.
Opposition inroads likely will force prime minister into power-sharing coalition as hoped-for landslide fails to emerge
With 543 parliamentary seats up for grabs for the next five years, early indications are that Mr. Modi, as expected, is set for a third term in office, but that opposition parties did better than many pre-vote polls had predicted.The NDA, or National Democratic Alliance, is the governing coalition led by Mr. Modi’s Bharatiya Janata Party . Mr. Modi’s reference to the NDA rather than the BJP may reflect a changed parliamentary landscape.
Congress party leaders had hoped to build on the paltry 52 seats they won in Mr. Modi’s 2019 landslide win, and were on track to roughly double that number, the Associated Press reported. Political horse-trading looks likely. The leading parties will discuss the results and India’s changed political landscape at a meeting Wednesday, the Hindu newspaperOver the voting period, which stretched from 19 April to June 1, Mr. Modi trumpeted his party’s considerable progress on economic and welfare policies, but also sounded a clarion call of Hindu nationalism.
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