Modi’s victory proves that India’s opposition parties, and the Indian National Congress, will need to articulate a much clearer political vision to unseat the BJP’s election juggernaut. Mamata Banerjee’s Trinamool Congress was leading in 23 seats in Bengal, while the BJP was leading in 18 seats in the former bastion of the Left. “This is the first time that I will vote with a heavy heart for the BJP,” Saxena told HuffPost India. Rakhi Srivastava, a homemaker from Gurgaon, a suburb of Delhi, told HuffPost India, “Modi is finally doing what other leaders failed to do. Modi was the Chief Minister of Gujarat at the time, and showed no sympathy for those killed in the riots.

Source: Huffington Post May 23, 2019 11:30 UTC