Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi is set to win a third consecutive term after six weeks of parliamentary elections in India, as his Hindu nationalist party is on the verge of victory, the first exit polls showed today.
The results of the vote, the largest in India’s history with 968 million voters, are expected on Tuesday, but exit polls today show Modi, 73, will be prime minister again.
Modi’s BJP and its allies are expected to win at least 355 seats in the lower house of parliament, well short of the necessary majority of 272 seats.
Agence France-Presse warned that in the past such exit poll projections were not always reliable.
Modi has already won the 2014 and 2019 elections by a landslide.
Voting, which began six weeks ago, ended today in the holy city of Varanasi, a stronghold of Hinduism and of Modi himself, Beta writes.
