NEW DELHI - Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi is set to win a rare third term in office, but a smaller-than-expected mandate means he will have to lean more on his allies for support, and that means urgently addressing issues like unemployment, inflation and economic disparities in the world's most populous nation.
Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi's party will need its alliance partners to cross the 272 majority mark in the 543-seat lower house of parliament.NEW DELHI - Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi is set to win a rare third term in office, but ameans he will have to lean more on his allies for support, and that means urgently addressing issues like unemployment, inflation and economic disparities in the world's most populous nation.
Mr Modi, a strong leader, has not had to rely on alliance partners in the past and it was not clear how easily he would cope. The BJP, which had campaigned on India's spectacular economic expansion, its growing international stature and the party's Hindu-first agenda, has acknowledged unemployment was a factor in the election.
Government estimates for the latest January-March quarter show that the urban unemployment rate in the 15-29 age group ticked higher to 17 per cent, from 16.5 per cent in the prior quarter. But a fall in voter turnout in the first stage of the seven-phase election worried the BJP, several party officials said. A pollster, who declined to be named citing private conversations, said he got calls from "panicked" BJP officials asking if "something was going wrong. Why aren't people coming?".
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