{"id":64710,"date":"2024-06-06T02:30:28","date_gmt":"2024-06-05T17:30:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/commentisfree\/article\/2024\/jun\/05\/the-guardian-view-on-modis-election-disappointment-the-winner-is-democracy-in-india"},"modified":"2024-06-06T02:30:28","modified_gmt":"2024-06-05T17:30:28","slug":"the-guardian-view-on-modis-election-disappointment-the-winner-is-democracy-in-india-editorial","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=64710","title":{"rendered":"The Guardian view on Modi\u2019s election disappointment: the winner is democracy in India | Editorial"},"content":{"rendered":"

The prime minister assumed he would sweep back to power in a landslide. Voters have wisely chosen otherwise<\/p>\n

Nemesis has followed swift on the heels of Narendra Modi\u2019s hubris. He is set to be the first Indian prime minister to serve a third term since its first, Jawaharlal Nehru. Yet rarely has an election victory<\/a> looked more like defeat.<\/p>\n

He boasted that he would win a third full majority<\/a> in the world\u2019s largest democracy \u2013 suggesting his party would win as many as 400 seats \u2013 and said he had been sent by God. Instead of a coronation, he got a rebuke. Far from winning a landslide, his Bharatiya Janata party\u2019s seats fell from 303 to 240, leaving him reliant on political allies. The BJP had made a major push in the south and managed to take a seat in Kerala. But Mr Modi\u2019s vote slumped in his own constituency of Varanasi, in the north. Indian electors have humbled the strongman.<\/p>\n

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The prime minister assumed he would sweep back to power in a landslide. Voters have wisely chosen otherwiseNemesis has followed swift on the heels of Narendra Modi\u2019s hubris. He is set to be the first Indian prime minister to serve a third ter…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":307,"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":[62,1357,433,61,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-64710","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-india","category-islamophobia","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\/64710","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\/307"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=64710"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64710\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":64711,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64710\/revisions\/64711"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=64710"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=64710"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=64710"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}