{"id":10101,"date":"2024-06-05T05:33:54","date_gmt":"2024-06-04T17:33:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/?p=10101"},"modified":"2024-06-05T05:33:54","modified_gmt":"2024-06-04T17:33:54","slug":"indias-modi-claims-victory-as-he-heads-for-reduced-majority","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/?p=10101","title":{"rendered":"India&#8217;s Modi claims victory as he heads for reduced majority"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"sc-eb7bd5f6-0 fYAfXe\">Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi has claimed a historic third win in a row in the country&#8217;s parliamentary elections, but his ruling alliance appears to have failed to win a large majority as predicted.<\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-eb7bd5f6-0 fYAfXe\">He thanked voters and said he would continue the &#8220;good work&#8221; of the last decade.<\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-eb7bd5f6-0 fYAfXe\">Mr Modi\u2019s BJP-led alliance is leading in more than 290 of 543 seats up for grabs, well short of their target of 400.<\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-eb7bd5f6-0 fYAfXe\">The Congress and other allied opposition parties have surprised observers, and are now expected to win more than 230.<\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-eb7bd5f6-0 fYAfXe\">The results give the lie to a slew of exit polls at the weekend that showed the BJP-led NDA alliance on course for a super majority of two-thirds of parliament, which would have allowed it to make changes to the constitution.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>bbc<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi has claimed a historic third win in a row in the country&#8217;s parliamentary elections, but his ruling alliance appears to have failed to win a large majority as predicted. He thanked voters and said he would continue the &#8220;good work&#8221; of the last decade. Mr Modi\u2019s BJP-led alliance is leading [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":10102,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[177],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10101","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-world"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10101","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=10101"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10101\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10103,"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10101\/revisions\/10103"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/10102"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=10101"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=10101"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=10101"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}