2024-07-21 16:43:29
American billionaire Elon Musk congratulated Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi on becoming the most followed political leader on Twitter.
Modi’s followers on Musk’s X platform have surpassed 100 million.
“Congratulations to Prime Minister Narendra Modi on becoming the most followed leader in the world!” Musk said in a post.
In June, Modi’s Bharatiya Janata Party and its allies won weeks of Indian elections, but the opposition said voters had sent a clear message to his Hindu nationalist party after it lost its parliamentary majority for the first time in a decade.
The Bharatiya Janata Party-led alliance won an absolute parliamentary majority, according to figures released by the Election Commission.
But the results and polls indicate that the Bharatiya Janata Party alone will win 240 seats, compared to 303 seats it won five years ago, which means that it will have to rely on its partners.
Modi told a crowd of supporters in New Delhi after his party’s victory that India had given the party and its allies a mandate for “a third consecutive term.”
“Our third term will see big decisions taken and the country will write a new chapter of development. This is Modi’s guarantee,” he added.
Modi was re-elected from his constituency, which represents the Hindu holy city of Varanasi, by a margin of 152,300 votes, compared to about half a million votes five years ago.
The election is massive in its scale and logistical complexity, with 642 million voters casting their ballots in major cities such as New Delhi and Mumbai as well as in sparsely populated forest areas and the Himalayas.
According to the commission’s figures, which indicate that the number of registered voters reached 968 million, 66.3 percent of them participated, which is about one percentage point lower than that recorded in the last general election in 2019, when the participation rate was 67.4 percent.
Last updated: July 20, 2024 – 20:02
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2024-07-21 16:43:29