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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Rahul Gandhi: hope in defeat for India opposition figurehead
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 hype backfires: India’s surprise vote result
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?
India’s Congress on the rise? Electoral gains could be ‘stepping stone’ to renewal and growth
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.
India stock market heads into uncertain post-election landscape
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.
Modi set to be formally elected as alliance leader as India coalition talks progress
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.
India’s Modi elected as leader of coalition and set to form new 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.