Modi Secures Landslide Victory in India's General Election

Nerandra Modi

India's General Election is Won by the Modi-led Coalition

India's general election has been won by the ruling NDA alliance, led by Prime Minister Nerandra Modi's Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), with a minimum of 274 seats more than the required 272 seats to establish a government.

Nearly a billion people registered to vote in the largest election ever conducted, which took place over the course of six weeks in seven phases.

However, Modi's BJP party has lost its absolute parliamentary majority and is expected to finish the election with 240 of 543 seats, far fewer than the 400 seats he had targeted for himself throughout the campaign.

Modi had earlier declared the NDA group's triumph in a speech at the Delhi headquarters of the BJP.

Opposition leaders had voiced concerns about a skewed electoral landscape, citing instances of targeted arrests and alleged freezing of party funds, which they claimed undermined their ability to campaign fairly and competitively.

Rahul Gandhi, the leader of the Congress Party and generally considered Modi's chief opponent, said the results showed that Modi's proposals to change the constitution were rejected.

In his address, the Prime Minister expressed gratitude to the electorate for their overwhelming support, pledging to ‘leave no stone unturned' in his third term to root out corruption entirely and vowing to spearhead a crusade to eradicate poverty from India once and for all.

The opposition INDIA coalition has 193 confirmed seats, while the BJP has 226 on its own.