NEW DELHI —As the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) and the National Democratic Alliance (NDA) look to cross 300 of the 545 seats in Lok Sabha, based on early leads, BJP leader Subramanian Swamy called the results a “Hindutva wave”. “This is not a Modi wave, but a Hindutva wave,” the Rajya Sabha lawmaker told HuffPost India. The election results, according to Swamy, showed that religion had prevailed over caste. Earlier this year, Swamy told HuffPost India that if not for the Balakot strike after the Pulwama attack, the BJP was looking at 160 seats in Lok Sabha. Last year, he said that the BJP had failed economically, but Modi would win the election on Hindutva.

Source: Huffington Post May 23, 2019 06:22 UTC