This year is election year in most of the democratic world, and the largest single contest concluded earlier this month in India. Prime Minister Narendra Modi, in office since 2014, won reelection to another five-year term, but his Bharatiya Janata Party no longer holds a majority on its own in the Lok Sabha, the lower house of India’s parliament. The BJP will now have to work with its coalition partners in government, something it did not have to do in Modi’s first two terms as PM.
The idea that the BJP had hacked Indian democracy has proven incorrect. India is not a tyranny of the Hindu majority. You can read my take on the election results from last week here.
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