India Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s Hindu nationalist party looking to earn third consecutive term
Millions of Indians are voting Saturday in the next-to-last round of a gruelling national election with a combined opposition trying to rattle Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s campaign for a third consecutive term for himself and his Hindu nationalist party.
The voting for the remaining 57 seats on June 1 will wrap up a six-week election. The votes will be counted on June 4. Temperatures are likely to rise above 45 Celsius in some places on Saturday. Election authorities said they are taking steps to ensure voters’ comfort, such as setting up fans and tents and providing drinking water.
“When the polls began it felt like a one-horse race, with Modi leading from the front. But now we are seeing some kind of shift,” political analyst Rasheed Kidwai said. “The opposition is doing better than expected and it appears that Modi’s party is rattled. That’s the reason you see Modi ramping up anti-Muslim rhetoric to polarize voters.”
But he changed tack after a poor turnout of voters in the first round of the election and began stirring Hindu nationalism by accusing the Congress party of pandering to minority Muslims for votes.Nearly 970 million voters – more than 10% of the world’s population – were eligible to elect 543 members to the lower house of Parliament for five years.
Modi came to power in 2014, dislodging the Congress party that governed the country for nearly 55 years after India won independence from British colonialists in 1947.
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