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India’s Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s Hindu nationalist party won elections in Delhi’s vast majority on Saturday for the first time in 27 years, losing his national majority last year, and his most prominent critics After losing one person to the majority, he defeated them with much needed boost.
Modi’s Bharatiyajanata Party (BJP) has won 48 seats in the 70-member assembly of the Metropolitan Area, according to figures posted online by the Election Commission.
“Development wins, good governance wins,” Modi said in a post on X.
Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) of Aavind Kejwal, one of Modi’s most prominent enemies and former prime minister of the capital, won just 22 seats.
“We accept the mission of humble people. We congratulate the BJP on this victory and hope that they will fulfill all the promises that people have voted for them,” Kejwal said in a video statement. .
Delhi, a vast city of about 20 million people, faces major issues such as access to housing and high levels of air pollution that covers the city with toxic smog cities for several months each year.
The capital has long been a stumbling block of juggernauts in the BJP election, struck much of India in the last decade, with the party in 1998 for the last time in power.
The AAP, which was born from a popular anti-corruption movement, has been controlling the capital since 2015, home to Indian parliamentary and government buildings.
Just before the general election last April, Kejwal was arrested on a transplant charge that he and his party said were ordered by the BJP.
The US State Department later angered the Modi government by demanding the authorities to ensure fair legal proceedings in Kejwal.
Modi won his third term in last year’s Mammoth General Election and became the first leader to secure such a feat since India’s founding prime minister, Jawaharlal Nehru. However, voters have had shocking results, reducing the BJP’s majority in the national parliament, and the party now rules the 1.4 billion country as part of the coalition.
