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May 23, 2019

Indian PM Narendra Modi Headed for Second Term as Hindu Nationalists Surge
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In India, Prime Minister Narendra Modi is poised to enter a second
five-year term, after election returns show him winning a six-week-long
parliamentary election that was widely seen as a referendum on his
leadership. Election results so far show Modi's Hindu nationalist BJP
party leading in 300 of the 543 seats in Parliament. If the trend holds,
Modi will have an even greater majority than in 2014, when his party
claimed the first outright majority in decades. We'll have more on
Modi's apparent election victory in India later in the broadcast.


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