INDIA: Hindu nationalist leader and country's next Prime Minister Narendra Modi recieves hero's welcome in New Delhi

Record ID: 1376943

  • Title: INDIA: Hindu nationalist leader and country's next Prime Minister Narendra Modi recieves hero's welcome in New Delhi
  • Date: 17th May 2014
  • Summary: MODI GOING TO THE HEADQUARTERS AMID SUPPORTERS AND CROWDS
  • Embargoed: 1st June 2014 20:28
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  • Location: India
  • Country: India
  • Topics: General,Politics,People
  • Reuters ID: LVA1L8ZNPQA4C02W4KPPO4NV6MWC
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  • Story Text: Hindu nationalist leader Narendra Modi arrived in New Delhi on Saturday (May 17) to a hero's welcome by supporters as he thanked the nation for his massive victory in general elections.
    Modi swept to a landslide win in the mammoth election on Friday (May 16), trouncing Nehru-Gandhi dynasty in a seismic political shift that gives his Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) a mandate to rule the country for next five years.
    Modi's win was the most resounding election victory the country has seen in 30 years, and was welcomed with a blistering rally on India's stock markets and raucous celebrations at offices across the country of his BJP, where supporters danced, let off fireworks and handed out sweets.
    Modi reached the national capital from his home state of western Gujarat and walked towards his BJP office amid swarms of people gathered to have a glimpse of him.
    Supporters showered him with rose petals and chanted his name as he thanked his party's thousands of workers who had made this win possible.
    "The biggest credit for this win goes to 1.2 billion people of the nation. Secondly, the credit also goes to those who have lived with an idea to give their all to the country since 1952. This win was possible because of them," he said.
    Modi's sweeping win closes off a chapter of fragile coalition governments, giving the former tea-seller ample room to advance reforms started 23 years ago by current Prime Minister Manmohan Singh but which have stalled in recent years.
    India's election was the world's largest. Staggered over five weeks, a record of more than 500 million ballots were cast from the Himalayas in the north to the tropical south, with voters braving blistering heat for a record 66 percent turnout.
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