Critics have said Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi's Hindu-first platform risks exacerbating social tensions in the country of 1.3 billion people.
The election has been seen as a referendum on Modi, whose economic reforms have had mixed results but whose popularity as a social underdog in India’s highly stratified society has endured. Critics have said his Hindu-first platform risks exacerbating social tensions in the country of 1.3 billion people.
Outside BJP headquarters in New Delhi, hundreds of people cheered and shouted party slogans, lifting cardboard cut-outs of Modi and BJP President Amit Shah into the air as other people played drums and set off fireworks. Fashion designer Sandeep Verma, 39, said he wasn’t a BJP supporter but had voted for the party in the elections.
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