The release of the results on Tuesday upended conventional wisdom throughout the six-week election that Modi's Hindu nationalist agenda would power him to a landslide win. This is Modi's guarantee," Modi told a crowd of cheering supporters in the capital, New Delhi. In a remarkable turnaround, the main opposition Congress party won 99 seats, almost doubling its 2019 tally of 52. "The country has said to Narendra Modi 'We don't want you'," opposition leader Rahul Gandhi told reporters. "BJP has failed to win a big majority on its own," Congress lawmaker Rajeev Shukla told reporters.
