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| C'tsy: Cartoonist:Ashok Adepal |
The numbers are still coming in but the outcome is already clear: India’s National Democratic Alliance coalition, led by the Bharatiya Janata Party, has taken a clear parliamentary majority in India’s national elections which were held over the past few weeks and will determine the 543 occupants of the next Lok Sabha — the lower house of India’s bicameral parliament. The NDA looks set to win 329 seats, marking the largest parliamentary majority held by a party since Rajiv Gandhi’s Congress in 1984. The BJP alone appears to have won 274 seats, well in excess of the 272 mark needed to hold a majority in parliament.
