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Al Jazeera
Al Jazeera
Yashraj Sharma

Modi’s BJP loses majority in India election shock, needs allies for gov’t

Supporters of Narendra Modi, India's prime minister and leader of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), celebrate vote-counting results for India's general election [Arun Sankar/AFP]

New Delhi, India — Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) lost its national majority after suffering major losses in key states, marking a dramatic shift in a political landscape it has dominated for the past decade.

The BJP emerged, comfortably, as the country’s single-largest party in the Lok Sabha, the lower house of India’s parliament. But as India’s election authorities counted 640 million votes within a day on Tuesday, after a six-week-long election, the BJP fell well short of its performances from 2014 and 2019.

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