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| Voters in India Expected to Give Narendra Modi a Mandate
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| INDIA
, 13-May-2014
5:29:37 AM |
| Exit polls released Monday suggested that voters in India's parliamentary election will deliver a mandate for the Bharatiya Janata Party's Narendra Modi, a Hindu nationalist who has promised to create manufacturing jobs and overhaul the country's infrastructure. (Narendra Modi on Course for Election Victory, Exit Polls Show)
The country's stock market surged to a record high on the last day of voting on the news that the BJP coalition could receive more than 272 of the lower house's 545 seats, enough to allow Modi to form a government without forging a coalition with fractious regional power brokers.
However, India's exit polls are not always reliable, having incorrectly predicted a BJP victory in 2004, when the Indian National Congress won by a comfortable margin, and underestimated the Congress' winning margin in 2009. The official vote count will take place Friday.
Turnout exceeded 66 percent, according to the election commission, even before Monday's voters were included in the polls, setting a new benchmark in India. The previous record, of around 64 percent, was set in 1984, during a wave of emotion that followed the assassination of former Prime Minister Indira Gandhi.
Modi, 63, tapped into growing frustration with the Congress party, and the Gandhi-Nehru political dynasty that has controlled the party since India's independence in 1947. In an interview published Monday, he promised that he would come to power without "hangers-on or darbaris," a Hindi word that translates as "courtiers."
"Look at what is happening in the capital," he said. "Delhi is being controlled by a cabal that has vested interests in the status quo."
As the campaign entered its final weeks, Modi appeared confident of winning, and at rallies he began to focus his remarks on the need for a large margin of victory to bring change to India.
"If a vehicle is stuck in the mud, and the mud is strong, no matter how hard you push, you cannot pull it out,"
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