Losing majority in Parliament prompts introspection in India’s ruling BJP

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Sources said an internal review has started.

Indian PM Narendra Modi with a letter he received from President Droupadi Murmu inviting him to form a new government after their meeting in New Delhi on June 7.

This narrow victory has sent tremors through the BJP, which enjoyed a decade of outright majority that allowed Mr Modi to push through longstanding promises to its supporters, such as removing the special status for Muslim-majority Kashmir in 2019. But the party saw its biggest setback in the northern state of Uttar Pradesh, where it slid from holding 62 seats since the 2019 election to just 33 this time. The opposition Samajwadi Party won 37 and the Congress Party, seven.In Modi's stronghold, voters chose jobs over new Hindu temple

“BJP, I think, for the moment will not go for its Hindu-Muslim rhetoric because it has allies which will take exception, and so it will have to go back to the drawing board.”

 

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