Polls forecast comfortable victory for prime minister Narendra Modi’s Hindu nationalist BJP
will vote in a new parliament in seven phases between April 19th and June 1st, in what will be the world’s largest election exercise, potentially involving some 968 million eligible voters.
In recent weeks, Mr Modi said the BJP would win 370 seats, and an aggregate of more than 400 for the 38-party National Democratic Alliance it heads. This projected number was significantly higher than the 353 MPs that the NDA sent to parliament in 2019.
Narendra Modi has been stressing his electoral clarion call of “Modi’s guarantee” that promises to economically empower India’s youth, women, farmers and the socially marginalised. Photograph: APin the small northern town of Ayodhya. It was built on the site of a 16th-century mosque, whose demolition 32 years ago by Hindu zealots triggered countrywide sectarian rioting in which more than 2,000 people died.
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