The National Democratic Alliance manages to maintain its absolute majority in the legislature, although it loses support compared to 2019, a situation caused by the rise of the center-left coalition Inclusive Alliance for the National Development of India (INDIA).
Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi said on Tuesday that people have put “their trust” in the National Democratic Alliance for the third time and that they will continue the “good work” of the past decade to continue fulfilling their aspirations. Modi has celebrated what he considers a “historic achievement”despite the fact that the final results reduce support for his coalition and instead provide the opposition with better data than what the polls predicted.
He Indian People’s Party (BJP)led by the Prime Minister, Narendra Modi, has won 36% of the vote after collecting almost 227.5 million votes, which would give it 241 seats. The National Democratic Alliance (NDAaccording to the acronym in English) thus obtains 290 seats, more than the 272 needed for an absolute majority.
This coalition, with a right-wing and conservative undertone, manages to maintain its absolute majority in parliament, even though it loses 58 seats compared to 2019, a situation caused by the rise of the center-left coalition. Inclusive Alliance for National Development of India (INDIA).
The coalition, made up of around 25 parties that joined forces to confront Modi, won 230 seats, which is 101 more than the seats won by its constituent formations in the last elections, according to data compiled by the election commission have been collected on its website.
INDIA’s main party, the Indian National Congress (INC)has won approximately 21% of the vote, which would translate into 98 seats, 46 more than in 2019. In addition, the Socialist Party accounts for 3.83% of the vote, for a total of 35 seats, after lacking representation in had reached the House of Representatives. last elections.
The ruling coalition faces setbacks in the states of Uttar Pradesh, Maharashtra, West Bengal, Kerala, Punjab and Tamil Nadu, where INDIA wins a larger number of seats, although it has the upper hand in other states such as Bihar, Madhya Pradesh, Karnataka, Gujarat , Andhra Pradesh, Odisha and the capital Delhi, where seven seats are at stake.
The BJP cannot win an absolute majority of seats on its own and needs the support of other parties, something unprecedented in Modi’s two previous mandates as his party won 303 MPs in 2019 and 282 in 2014.
For this reason, the leader of the Indian National Congress, Mallikarjun Jargestressed at a press conference that the results “represent a moral and political defeat” for Modi. “It is clear that the result is against Modi,” he said, according to the newspaper. The times of India.
Source: EITB
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