India’s Rahul Gandhi nominated as opposition leader after election gains
Gandhi’s Congress party’s election results defied analysts’ expectations, and helped rehabilitate his political career.
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Gandhi’s Congress party’s election results defied analysts’ expectations, and helped rehabilitate his political career.
The son, grandson and great-grandson of former prime ministers, Rahul Gandhi was seen as India’s next leader in waiting when he made his foray into politics in 2004.
The surprise election result in India leaves the BJP and Prime Minister Narendra Modi missing a chunk of voter support and at the helm of a tricky coalition. Will this new configuration loosen the screws on Indian media and give them space to reinvest in journalism rather than the sycophancy that dominated the airwaves so much of the time this past decade?
After Prime Minister Narendra Modi led the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) to emphatic wins in the last two national elections, a chant started growing louder among its workers – that of a Congress party-free India. But a setback for the BJP in its Hindi-speaking stronghold in this year’s polls has signalled a possible revival of the opposition, analysts say.
SINGAPORE -- As Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi enters his third term in office, investors will be watching to see whether his ability to drive economic change in the world's most populous nation has been by hurt the ruling coalition's election setback.
NEW DELHI — Newly elected lawmakers of Prime Minister Narendra Modi's National Democratic Alliance (NDA) arrived in New Delhi on Friday (June 7) for their first meeting at which he will be formally elected as their leader, ahead of presenting his claim to form a new coalition government.
NEW DELHI (AP) — Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Friday was formally elected as the leader of the National Democratic Alliance coalition, which won the most number of seats in the country’s national election after his political party failed to win a majority on its own.