Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi looked on course on Thursday for a major victory in the world’s largest election, with early trends suggesting an even bigger win for his Hindu nationalist party than in 2014.
The result would give the BJP and its allies, on course for close to 50 seats, a commanding 340 seats in the lower house. They will still lack a majority in the upper house, however, putting a brake on Modi’s legislative agenda. “Don’t get disappointed by the propaganda of fake exit polls,” Gandhi, 48, told the party faithful on Twitter.
The campaign, thought to have cost more than $7-billion, was awash with insults — Modi was likened to Hitler and a “gutter insect” — as well as fake news in Facebook and WhatsApp’s biggest markets. Modi, a former cadre in the militaristic hardline Hindu group Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh and chief minister of Gujurat in 2002 when riots killed more than 1 000 people, most of them Muslims, is also seen as divisive.
“If Modi again comes to power we are doomed,” Hassan Khalid Azmi, a retired chemistry professor and Muslim in the northern city of Azamgarh, told AFP earlier this month.But Modi, 68, managed deftly to turn the election into a referendum on his rule while depicting himself, often in the third person, as the only one able to defend India.
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