India n prime Minister Narendra Modi has claimed his third general election win despite a lackluster performance from his own party as it faced a stronger than expected challenge from his opponents.
Early figures showed Modi on track to win another parliamentary majority after a six-week-long election that saw 642 million people vote in seven stages across the world's most populous country. Modi said at the weekend he was confident that 'the people of India have voted in record numbers' to re-elect his government, a decade after he first became prime minister.
But while the BJP may be celebrating, the victory during a particularly hot summer in India has come at the cost of dozens polling staff, who died of heatstroke. Modi's opponents have struggled to counter the BJP's well-oiled and well-funded campaign juggernaut, and have been hamstrung by what they say are politically motivated criminal cases aimed at hobbling challengers.
Read More Two sex attackers are sentenced to death in India for gang-raping girl, 14, and burning her alive inside a furnace in 'rarest of the rare' case that shocked the country as mother cries 'justice' in court Kejriwal, 55, was detained in March over a long-running corruption probe, but was later released and allowed to campaign as long as he returned to custody once voting ended.
The polls were staggering in their size and logistical complexity, with voters casting their ballots in megacities New Delhi and Mumbai, as well as in sparsely populated forest areas and in the high-altitude territory of Kashmir. India's major TV networks had reporters outside each counting centre, competing to flash results for each of the 543 elected seats in the lower house of parliament.
That deepening of ties has come despite rights groups sounding the alarm about threats to India's democracy and increased discrimination towards the 200-million-plus Muslim minority.The US Justice Department last year charged an Indian citizen with allegedly plotting an assassination attempt in New York approved by India's intelligence agency.With France, it hopes to expand multi-billion-dollar deals including the sale of Rafale fighter jets and Scorpene-class submarines.
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