India’s Narendra Modi declares victory for BJP in landslide result
1. Incoming Indian leader Narendra Modi has pledged to make the 21st century “India’s century” after leading his Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) to a landslide election victory.
2. Mr Modi’s triumph, the most resounding election victory India has seen in 30 years, swept aside the ruling Congress party in a seismic political shift that gives the Hindu nationalist and his party a mandate for economic reform.
3. Official figures show the BJP winning at least 274 seats in the 543-member parliament, while the left-leaning Congress party has 44 seats, its worst-ever defeat.
4. “I want to make the 21st century India’s century. It will take 10 years, not very long,” Mr Modi told supporters in his home state of Gujarat.
“India is our mother. How can we watch our mother cry?”
Mukesh Rai