India Elections: Ultra Nationalist Narendra Modi Wins a Landslide Victory.
17-05-2014 10:59 AM
Ammon News - AMMONNEWS - Modi's Bharatiya Janata party (BJP) won 350 out of the 543 elected seats of India's the lower house. BJP's win is seen as a shift of the political landscape India to the far right.
Modi, a controversial Hindu nationalist, was the Governor of Gujarat when the massacres targeting Muslims slaughtered over two thousand civilians.
For his role in inflaming the massacres, Modi was banned from entering the United States under a law preventing foreigners who had committed "particularly severe violations of religious freedom," AP reported. investigations of the Gujarat massacre and the Gulbarg Society massacre did not produce a clear decision of his culpability. Members of BJP were indicted and sentenced to Jail.
World leaders rushed to call Pakistan's new premier, Nawaz Sharif, for consultations.
India and Pakistan fought four wars. The Kashmir region remain a hot spot between the two nuclear countries.