{"id":14174,"date":"2024-07-11T20:33:42","date_gmt":"2024-07-11T20:33:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/?p=14174"},"modified":"2024-07-11T20:33:42","modified_gmt":"2024-07-11T20:33:42","slug":"modi-won-the-indian-election-so-why-does-it-seem-like-he-lost","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/?p=14174","title":{"rendered":"Modi won the Indian election. So why does it seem like he lost?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>&#8220;Overall, the BJP&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/news\/2024\/6\/6\/mapping-the-results-of-the-india-election-2024\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">lost 63 of the seats it previously held in the Lok Sabha<\/a>. That means that, although the BJP still has the most seats of any party in the lower house of parliament, it doesn\u2019t have a majority. Together with its coalition partners, the BJP still has a 293-seat majority, but that\u2019s not enough to make constitutional amendments unchallenged. Modi and the BJP will now encounter more friction \u2014&nbsp;both from the opposition and potentially from within the coalition it formed as an insurance policy during the campaign.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.vox.com\/world-politics\/354352\/modi-india-election-gandhi-bjp-uttar-pradesh-inauguration-hindutva\">https:\/\/www.vox.com\/world-politics\/354352\/modi-india-election-gandhi-bjp-uttar-pradesh-inauguration-hindutva<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Overall, the BJP lost 63 of the seats it previously held in the Lok Sabha. That means that, although the BJP still has the most seats of any party in the lower house of parliament, it doesn\u2019t have a majority. Together with its coalition partners, the BJP still has a 293-seat majority, but that\u2019s not enough to make constitutional amendments unchallenged. Modi and the BJP will now encounter more friction \u2014 both from the opposition and potentially from within the coalition it formed as an insurance policy during the campaign.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>https:\/\/www.vox.com\/world-politics\/354352\/modi-india-election-gandhi-bjp-uttar-pradesh-inauguration-hindutva<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[431,372,198,83,494],"class_list":["post-14174","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-article-share","tag-democracy","tag-election","tag-elections","tag-india","tag-modi"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14174","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=14174"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14174\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14175,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14174\/revisions\/14175"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=14174"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=14174"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=14174"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}