(UPDATE) NEW DELHI — India's Hindu nationalist Prime Minister Narendra Modi and his allies were heading for victory at the halfway point in the South Asian country's general election count on Tuesday, but with a reduced parliamentary majority.
NEW DELHI — India 's Hindu nationalist Prime Minister Narendra Modi and his allies were heading for victory at the halfway point in the South Asian country's general election count on Tuesday, but with a reduced parliamentary majority.His campaign deepened concerns for minority rights in the world's most populous country as he wooed the Hindu majority, to the worry of the 200-million-plus Muslim community.
Officials count votes at a vote-counting center in the city of Amritsar, Punjab state, northwestern India, on June 4, 2024. AFP PHOTOModi, 73, said over the weekend he was confident that 'the people of India have voted in record numbers' to reelect his government, a decade after he first became prime minister.
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