India to kick off vote counting for the world’s biggest election, with exit polls projecting a Modi victory
India will start counting votes for its 2024 general election at 08:00a.m. local time on Tuesday, with Narendra Modi projected to win a rare third consecutive term as prime minister. A whole host of exit polls released on Saturday showed the Bharatiya Janata Party-led National Democratic Alliance was set to win an overwhelming majority, with the NDTV poll of polls pegging the coalition's seats at 365 in the lower house of the parliament. Exit poll projections may not always be accurate. The party or coalition that wins at least 272 seats out of 543 forms the government. Markets reacted euphorically to exit polls predicting an emphatic victory for the BJP, with key stock benchmarks, the Nifty50 an