India election: Modi fails to win outright majority
Global News Podcast
BBC
4.3 • 8.3K Ratings
🗓️ 4 June 2024
⏱️ 30 minutes
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Summary
An alliance led by Mr Modi has won enough seats to allow him to serve as prime minister for a third term. His BJP party has far fewer seats than it won in the last election five years ago. Also in this podcast: President Biden announces a new policy on immigration at the border with Mexico, the leaders of the UK's two main political parties, Keir Starmer and Rishi Sunak, go head to head in a live TV debate, and pilots in Switzerland's Air Force to practice taking off from motorways.
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| 0:00.0 | This is the Global News Podcast from the BBC World Service. |
| 0:04.0 | I'm Alex Ritzen and in the early hours of Wednesday the 5th of June, |
| 0:10.0 | these are our main stories. |
| 0:12.0 | We are all very grateful to members of the public. |
| 0:17.0 | Citizens have expressed full confidence in the B.J. |
| 0:20.0 | And NDA. |
| 0:21.0 | It's a victory of unwavering loyalty to the Constitution of India. |
| 0:24.3 | Another term for Prime Minister Norendramodi, but not the majority he was expecting. |
| 0:29.6 | In the US, President Biden announced a new policy on immigration at the border with Mexico. |
| 0:36.0 | The British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak and opposition leader Kir Starma |
| 0:40.0 | have made their pitch to voters in the first head-to-head TV debate of the general election. |
| 0:48.3 | Also in this podcast, Switzerland's Air Force pilots prepare to practice take-offs and landings on the country's motorway network. |
| 0:57.0 | We begin with the Indian election. |
| 1:03.0 | Official results show an alliance led by the incumbent Prime Minister will form the next government. |
| 1:08.0 | But Norengramode was unable to win a majority for his party, the BHP, with far fewer seats won than the last |
| 1:15.4 | election five years ago. |
| 1:17.4 | An alliance led by Mr. Modi did win enough seats to allow him to serve as Prime Minister |
| 1:22.4 | for a third term, and for this he was |
| 1:24.6 | given a hero's welcome as our South Asia correspondent Samira-Hassain reports |
| 1:29.9 | from Delhi. |
| 1:31.9 | As Mr. Modi walked into BGB from Delhi. |
| 1:33.2 | As Mr. Modi walked into BGP headquarters, supporters roared with excitement, throwing flower petals |
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