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India's Modi readies for third term after securing coalition

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A supporter (right) of Narendra Modi, India's Prime Minister and leader of Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), holds his portrait outside an election counting centre in Bengaluru on June 4, 2024. [AFP]

Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi was preparing Thursday to be sworn in for a third term after an unexpectedly close election that forced his party into a coalition government.

Modi's Hindu-nationalist Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), which had ruled for the past decade with an outright majority, had been expecting another landslide win.

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