Indian Voters Deliver Blow to Modi and BJP
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Listen to story: https://ia904600.us.archive.org/22/items/2024-06-11-ruws_202406/2024_06_11_Amandeep_Sandhu.mp3Download: mp3 (Duration: 23:39) FEATURING AMANDEEP SANDHU - India, the world’s largest democracy, recently concluded its 6-week long election and delivered a blow to the ruling Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) whose leader Narendra Modi has been Prime Minister for the past decade. The BJP won 240 seats, a plurality, which still allows it to lead, but via a coalition government in India’s parliamentary system.  In 2014 and 2019 the party won landslide majorities but the nation of 1.4 billion people seems to have lost some of its appetite for Modi’s brand of rightwing Hindu-supremacist fundamentalism and neoliberal economic policies.  This post is for subscribers only Subscribe now Already have an account? Sign in
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