{"id":64802,"date":"2024-06-09T19:08:10","date_gmt":"2024-06-09T10:08:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/article\/2024\/jun\/09\/indian-elections-democracy-modi-opposition-gains-analysis"},"modified":"2024-06-09T19:08:10","modified_gmt":"2024-06-09T10:08:10","slug":"indian-democracy-fought-back-modi-humbled-as-opposition-gains-ground","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=64802","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Indian democracy fought back\u2019: Modi humbled as opposition gains ground"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Campaigners say election shows rejection of \u2018hate politics\u2019 after marginalised groups vote to deny BJP a majority<\/p>\n<p>It was widely described as the week that India\u2019s beleaguered democracy was pulled back from the brink. As the election results rolled in on Tuesday, all predictions and polls were defied as <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/article\/2024\/jun\/04\/india-election-results-narendra-modi-bjp\">Narendra Modi lost his outright majority for the first time in a decade <\/a>while the opposition re-emerged as a legitimate political force. On Sunday evening, Modi will be sworn in as prime minister yet many believe his power and mandate stands diminished.<\/p>\n<p>For one opposition politician in particular, the humbling of the strongman prime minister was a moment to savour. Late last year, Mahua Moitra, one of the most outspoken critics of Modi and his Bharatiya Janata party (BJP), <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2023\/dec\/22\/mahua-moitra-indian-parliament-expulsion\">found herself unceremoniously expelled<\/a> from parliament and kicked out of her bungalow, after what she described as a \u201cpolitical witch-hunt\u201d for daring to stand up to Modi.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/article\/2024\/jun\/09\/indian-elections-democracy-modi-opposition-gains-analysis\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Campaigners say election shows rejection of \u2018hate politics\u2019 after marginalised groups vote to deny BJP a majorityIt was widely described as the week that India\u2019s beleaguered democracy was pulled back from the brink. As the election results rolled in on&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":649,"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":[62,3091,433,61,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-64802","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-india","category-india-elections-2024","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\/64802","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\/649"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=64802"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64802\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":64803,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64802\/revisions\/64803"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=64802"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=64802"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=64802"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}