Modi wins 3rd term as India's prime minister, but party losses could affect how he governs
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🗓️ 4 June 2024
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| 0:00.0 | India has re-elected Norendra Modi as Prime Minister, making him only the second leader in the nation's history to secure a third term. |
| 0:09.0 | But Indian analysts call the results a shock because Modi's party lost at least 20% of its |
| 0:14.1 | parliamentary seats forcing him to rely on a coalition and as Nick Schifren reports |
| 0:19.2 | that could affect how Modi will govern after 10 years in power. |
| 0:24.3 | At his party headquarters in New Delhi tonight, |
| 0:26.4 | Norendra Modi entered with triumph, |
| 0:28.9 | despite an election that left him humbled. For this blessing, I am indebted to all citizens. |
| 0:36.0 | Today is an auspicious day. |
| 0:38.0 | Modi fought the election in his own name, promising a rising stronger India. But many of the 640 million Indians who voted |
| 0:46.5 | over seven weeks voted their pocketbooks. |
| 0:49.7 | This was the economic crisis which large number were facing and they are the ones who have really |
| 0:54.8 | rural India and you know lower socioeconomic strata facing and they are the ones who have |
| 1:01.0 | really voted Mr. Modi out or have voted against Mr. |
| 1:04.5 | Moudi. |
| 1:05.5 | Su-Shant Singh is an Indian journalist and lecturer at Yale University. He says |
| 1:09.5 | rural Indians worried about the economy were also worried |
| 1:12.6 | Modi would amend the Constitution to revoke special rights for |
| 1:15.8 | underprivileged communities as opposition leader Rahu Gandhi said today. |
| 1:19.9 | I'm extremely proud of the people of India. I'm extremely proud of the people who have |
| 1:26.1 | resisted this onslaught on the Constitution. |
| 1:29.7 | This really put the fear in the ranks of these vast masses of so-called unschool poor Indians who thought |
| 1:36.2 | that something which gives them political rights, something which gives them some kind of path for |
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