The National Democratic Alliance (NDA), led by Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), won the general elections in India.
The winner of the general elections held in India to determine the members of the People’s Assembly, the lower wing of the federal parliament, which lasted for about 6 weeks, was announced. According to Indian media reports based on National Election Commission data, the National Democratic Alliance (NDA), led by Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), won the election race that started on April 19 and ended on June 1. The NDA, which won 336 seats in the 2014 elections and 353 seats in the 2019 elections, won 293 of the 543 seats in the last election race, while Modi’s party BJP, which won 303 seats in the general elections in 2019, reduced its number of seats to 240 in these elections.
Opposition increased its vote
The Indian Comprehensive National Development Alliance (INDIA), led by the National Congress Party (INC) and comprising more than 30 opposition parties, won 234 out of 543 seats, exceeding expectations, while the INC, the vanguard of the opposition bloc, almost doubled the 52 seats it won in the 2019 general elections. The INC won 99 seats in the last election.
Modi wins election but loses power
In the 2014 elections, the BJP, which ended India’s era of unstable coalition governments by gaining a single majority in the parliament and repeated the same success in the 2019 elections, lost power in the recent elections, while it was commented that Modi would be politically dependent on other parties in his third term.
He had declared victory
Indian Prime Minister Modi said in a statement during the hours of vote counting that the NDA alliance formed under the leadership of his party BJP achieved a “historic success” and said, “People have trusted the NDA for the third time in a row. This is a historic achievement in the history of India.” Modi stated that they will continue to fulfill the wishes of the people.
