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2024 was set up to be a year of elections.

Seven of the ten most populous countries on earth were scheduled to hold national votes.

One of the ones that seemed like a foregone conclusion was India's. Everyone expected

Narendra Modi and his Parthia Jantapati to sweep to power for a rare third consecutive term.

Not only that, the expectation was that they'd win a supermajority, perhaps enough seats even

to push through bigger changes like amending the country's constitution.

Well, on Tuesday, the people had their say.

Modi is likely coming back, but greatly diminished.

His party won the most number of seats, but not enough to form a government on its own.

It will need coalition partners.

It has those partners, but there's a catch.

First, at least one of them is infamous for switching sides,

which means Modi's government could have some inherent instability in it.

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