This is CBS I on the World.

This is CBS I on the World.

Here's John Bachelor.

This is CBS I in the world. I'm John Bachelor. The election took weeks, seven weeks I believe.

The Republic of India voted very carefully, hundreds of millions of votes. And now I welcome

Saddam Dumé of the American Enterprise Institute and the Wall Street Journal

editorial page. She writes a column on India, and I've reminded myself repeatedly in the elections these

last months, the Russian proverb, the only thing wrong with democracy is that it's unpredictable.

Sa'denon, B.J.P. all powerful.

Certainly I'm thinking of when the Prime Minister

Norengramodi attended the world championship

for cricket last summer and a stadium filled with more than 50,000

Excited fans a stadium named I believe for the Prime Minister and it looked like he was floating above the clouds and now the vote. Is there one

explanation being offered for how we all could have been believing the

the cheering of the crowd in the summertime and now the silence of the

crowd in the fall. Good evening to you. Very good evening yes absolutely it's a

you know it's a real surprise. You know going into the election, Modi was the overwhelming

favorite. The exit polls that came out just days before the results came out suggested that the B.J. P. was alone was going to do

extremely well and get a comfortable majority on its own and a large majority along

with its partners. And in the end what happened was was that the BJP ended up losing about a fifth of its seats.

It fell well below the majority mark for a single party majority in parliaments,

for the first time in 10 years and now it is

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