Prime Minister Narendra Modi claims victory in India’s general election, after a surprisingly disappointing performance from his own party.  400 seats was the expectation by the ruling BJP alliance. In the end they will end up with fewer than 300. A sharp decline from 2019 when the alliance held 353 seats. A dramatic shift in a political landscape it has dominated for the past decade. 

Joining the discussion: 

• Tushar Gupta is an Indian political analyst. 
• Irfan Nooruddin is an Indian politics professor at Georgetown University.
• Sourabh Gupta is a senior Asia-Pacific international relations policy specialist at ICAS. 
• Chidanand Rajghatta is the foreign editor and U.S. bureau chief for the Times of India. 

Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi said he was grateful to the people for electing his alliance for a third term in the general elections https://t.co/824huJuZQn pic.twitter.com/Hd1lvl7ZAd

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Hindu nationalist Modi won another mandate, but the results were a disappointment for his supporters who were expecting a supermajority for the BJP. Here is why Modi’s alliance lost significant ground to the oppositionhttps://t.co/3rm7NOkFZC

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India's ruling National Democratic Alliance, led by Prime Minister Narendra Modi's Bharatiya Janata Party, has secured a majority of the seats in the Lok Sabha (the lower house of Parliament), winning the 2024 Indian general elections. #GLOBALink pic.twitter.com/FUSVVj1ReN

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