Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi faces a historic third term, but with a diminished majority.
Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi was set for a historic third term on Tuesday, but with a vastly diminished majority in a rare electoral setback for a leader who has held a tight grip on the nation's politics. Modi's ruling Bharatiya Janata Party lost its own majority in parliament for the first time in a decade and is dependent on its regional allies to get past the halfway mark required to run the world's largest democracy.
" Still, Modi will be only the second leader to win a third term after founding prime minister Jawaharlal Nehru and has promised a transformative next five years. Under him, India has become the world's fastest growing major economy and he has said he wants to make it the world's third largest in three years, behind the United States and China. "What we have done in the last 10 years is only a preview, a trailer," Modi told a recent rally.
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