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Snapshot of the day

June 24, 2024

Siddharth Varadarajan

India’s newly elected parliament convened today for the first time. The first couple of days will be taken up with procedural matters but when MPs settle down for business, Prime Minister Narendra Modi will soon realise how much the political terrain inside the legislature has shifted.

Modi’s approach till now has been to act as if the fall in the Bharatiya Janata Party’s seats from 303 to 240 is of no consequence. The reality is that he will not find it so easy to undermine the role of the legislature: the opposition now has nearly as many MPs in the lower house as the BJP does, while in the Rajya Sabha it can no longer