(Tsering Topgyal/Associated Press)NEW DELHI — India’s ruling Hindu nationalist party won landslide victories in results announced Saturday from key state legislative elections that are seen as a referendum on the performance of Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s nearly 3-year-old government. Leaders from Modi’s Bharatiya Janata Party said the party’s victory in Uttar Pradesh, India’s largest state, would boost Modi’s chances of winning another term as India’s prime minister in 2019 elections. The Election Commission said the BJP won 311 out of 403 seats in Uttar Pradesh’s legislature. The Congress party lost power by winning only 11 seats. Both the BJP and the Congress party failed to win a majority of seats in western Goa state and northeastern Manipur state, according to the Election Commission.

Source: Washington Post March 11, 2017 06:17 UTC