{"id":64600,"date":"2024-06-02T02:41:22","date_gmt":"2024-06-01T17:41:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/article\/2024\/jun\/01\/modis-alliance-to-win-big-in-india-election-exit-polls-project"},"modified":"2024-06-02T02:41:22","modified_gmt":"2024-06-01T17:41:22","slug":"modis-alliance-to-win-easily-in-india-election-exit-polls-project","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=64600","title":{"rendered":"Modi\u2019s alliance to win easily in India election, exit polls project"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Prime minister claims victory but opposition dismisses poll results as fixed and unscientific<\/p>\n<p>Indian prime minister<a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/article\/2024\/may\/27\/india-elections-pm-narendra-modi-claims-he-has-been-chosen-by-god\"> Narendra Modi<\/a>\u2019s Bharatiya Janata party (BJP)-led alliance is projected to win a big majority in the general election that concluded on Saturday, TV exit polls said, suggesting it would do better than expected by most analysts.<\/p>\n<p>Most exit polls projected the ruling National Democratic Alliance (NDA) could win a two-thirds majority in the 543-member lower house of parliament, where 272 is needed for a simple majority. A two-thirds majority will allow the government to usher in far-reaching amendments to the constitution.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/article\/2024\/jun\/01\/modis-alliance-to-win-big-in-india-election-exit-polls-project\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Prime minister claims victory but opposition dismisses poll results as fixed and unscientificIndian prime minister Narendra Modi\u2019s Bharatiya Janata party (BJP)-led alliance is projected to win a big majority in the general election that concluded on Sa&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":751,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[62,433,61,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-64600","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-india","category-narendra-modi","category-south-and-central-asia","category-world-news"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64600","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/751"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=64600"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64600\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":64601,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64600\/revisions\/64601"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=64600"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=64600"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=64600"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}