Modi eyes triumph as India counts epic vote
The Peninsula
New Delhi: Vote counting began in India s election Tuesday, with Prime Minister Narendra Modi all but assured of a triumph. Exit polls have shown 7...
New Delhi: Vote counting began in India's election Tuesday, with Prime Minister Narendra Modi all but assured of a triumph.
Exit polls have shown 73-year-old Modi well on track for victory after a six-week-long election that saw 642 million people vote in seven stages across the world's most populous country.
Modi said at the weekend he was confident that "the people of India have voted in record numbers" to re-elect his government, a decade after he first became prime minister.
Observers believe his appeals to growing Hindu nationalist sentiment will give him a third term in power.
Modi's opponents have struggled to counter the campaign juggernaut of his Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), and have been hamstrung by infighting and what they say are politically motivated criminal cases aimed at hobbling challengers.
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