India election: Modi poised for third term
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🗓️ 4 June 2024
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From the BBC World Service: In India’s elections, early signs are pointing to a majority for a right-wing alliance of parties, led by India’s prime minister, Narendra Modi. It won’t be a landslide win, however. What does that mean for policy and the markets? And later in the program: Nigeria’s government says it’s made a new offer to try to bring the country’s general strike to a close.
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| 0:40.0 | Listen now. India's stocks drop as we get closer to an election result. |
| 0:55.0 | Hello and thank you for tuning into the Marketplace Morning Report. |
| 0:58.0 | We are live from the BBC World Service on Leanna Byrne. |
| 1:01.0 | We are almost at the end of the world's biggest election |
| 1:03.7 | which was held in seven phases over six weeks with almost a billion people |
| 1:08.0 | registered to vote and it's looking like prime minister it in Arundra Modi |
| 1:11.8 | will get a rare third consecutive term for himself and his party. |
| 1:16.0 | Let's go to the latest from Archena Shukla who is at the Bombay Stock Exchange. |
| 1:20.0 | Hello. |
| 1:21.0 | Hi. Archina, what's the latest? |
| 1:23.0 | Well, Yana, from what we see from the election counting trends, |
| 1:28.0 | there seems to be a majority forming for Prime Minister Modi's BJP and alliances, but it's |
| 1:35.7 | falling short of what the post-poll projections had predicted, so the Prime Minister |
| 1:41.7 | Modi's BJP is falling short of a majority on its own and that is somewhere a bit of a disappointment for supporters of Modi and the NDA Alliance. |
| 1:53.6 | And at the B.J. |
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