Since becoming prime minister of India Narendra Modi has reshaped politics on the subcontinent being praised by some and loathed by others.
The counting of more than 640 million votes cast over the past six weeks in the world’s largest democratic exercise is underway, but early results suggest Modi's Bharatiya Janata Party will fall short of a majority.
He has made much of the fact he is not from any of India's political dynasties that have been influential in the country's post-independence history.The only figure in his family he has ever been associated with while a politician has been his mother who died aged 99 in 2022.After spending his early career working in the BJP he rose to national prominence when he became the chief minister of Gujarat in 2001, an office he would hold until 2014.
Riding high on his local popularity he was selected as the BJP candidate for prime minister in the 2014 general election, which he won by a landslide.His popularity has outstripped that of his party and has turned a parliamentary election into one that increasingly resembles a presidential-style campaign.
In election speeches, the prime minister has referred to Muslims as "infiltrators" who have "many children". He even described a vote for the opposition Congress party as "vote jihad". The BJP manifesto offered guarantees that India will become the third-largest economy in the world, maintaining high growth and investment in major infrastructure projects.
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