Narendra Modi was exuding his usual bravado last weekend as India’s mammoth six-week election came to a conclusion.
The prime minister, who at one stage during the campaign spoke of a divine mandate to rule, claimed that Indians had “voted in record numbers” to re-elect his Bharatiya Janata party and its allies to a third five-year term.
Fresh from a three-day meditation retreat, Modi took a swipe at the opposition and its most prominent leader Rahul Gandhi, the fourth-generation member of the family that has dominated the Indian National Congress. “They are casteist, communal and corrupt,” he declared.
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