Official results are to be released Thursday, but the polls suggest Modi will return to power.
By Joanna Slater Joanna Slater Foreign correspondent covering South Asia Email Bio Follow May 19 at 11:00 AM NEW DELHI — Prime Minister Narendra Modi appeared poised to win reelection in the world’s largest democracy, according to exit polls released after voting ended Sunday in India’s marathon national election.
But Sunday’s exit polls suggested that Modi’s Hindu nationalist Bharatiya Janata Party and its allies would win a majority of seats in the lower house of India’s parliament. Over the last five years, the Modi government instituted a handful of economic reforms, rolled out schemes to assist poor Indians and launched a nationwide cleanliness drive. But it failed to deliver on its core promise to create jobs: The unemployment rate surged last year to a 45-year high.
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