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Al Jazeera
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John Power

India election: Why Modi’s narrow win sent the stock market tumbling

India's stock market has boomed since Narendra Modi came to power in 2014 [Rafiq Maqbool/AP]

India’s stock market took its worst tumble in four years after Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) lost its parliamentary majority.

The shock outcome of Tuesday’s election count means Modi will need to rely on smaller parties to form a governing majority in the 543-member Lok Sabha, the lower house of India’s parliament, raising uncertainty about the Indian leader’s ability to pursue his pro-business agenda.

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