India’s Hindu prime minister Narendra Modi reelected

Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi received congratulations on Wednesday from other world leaders for his reelection. Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy, Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez, and Kenyan President William Ruto, among others, offered their well-wishes. Modi thanked the people of India for putting their trust in his National Democratic Alliance, or NDA, coalition for a third consecutive time. Modi has served as India’s prime minister for 10 years, beginning his first term in 2014.

What sort of majority does the NDA have in India’s parliament now? The NDA won 293 seats. The threshold for a simple majority is 272 seats out of 543. Modi’s party within the NDA, the pro-Hindu Bharatiya Janata Party, or BJP, received only 240 seats, meaning it must rely on the larger alliance to hold the majority.

Dig deeper: Read Mark Tooley’s column in WORLD Opinions about the recent election and how Modi’s BJP party remains powerful despite its lack of a standalone majority.