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Modi Stripped of Majority, Limps Back With NDA Crutches; Congress and INDIA Have the Numbers to Harass BJP

In Ayodhya, temple doesn’t help BJP stave off defeat, BJP suffers significant loss in Dalit-dominated seats, Kashmiris, Ladakhis, Manipuris send message to BJP, bad behaviour, bad predictions recalled

Jun 04, 2024
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June 4, 2024

Siddharth Varadarajan

The Bharatiya Janata Party has lost its majority, winning just 240 seats in the Lok Sabha compared to the 303 it won in 2019. But if there is one statistic that captures the personal nature of the defeat Narendra Modi was handed by India’s voters today, it is the sharply reduced margin of 152,513 votes – down from 471,000 in 2019 – with which he won his own seat in Varanasi. Not only is his margin of victory half that of

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