🇮🇳 After months of campaigning and voting, India’s marathon election has thrown big surprises for the incumbent #NarendraModi and the opposition #INDIA bloc. While the governing National Democratic Alliance secured enough seats to form a government, the BJP has lost its parliamentary majority for the first time in a decade. Meanwhile, the opposition INDIA bloc led by the Congress Party defied the odds to make significant gains and claim more than 40 per cent of seats in the 543-seat lower hous

Prime Minister Narendra Modi has claimed victory in the Indian election – the world’s largest election – more than a month after the polls closed. "Modi’s victory now puts him in a very powerful position indeed, in terms of his Hindu nationalism, and that, of course, will be very worrying for the Muslim minority - about 200 million Muslims live in this country of 1.3 billion." - Sam Kiley, CNN correspondent www.7NEWS.com.au #TheLatest #7NEWS | 7NEWS Australia

As the last of Prime Minister Narendra Modi's election rallies wrap up, Reality Check looks at the man at the heart of this election - what has been his message this time and how does it differ from the promise of 2014. | NDTV