Making the unattainable doable. It’s a problem Narendra Modi frequently units for himself and works steadfastly in the direction of reaching. Within the 2014 common election, at a time when the Bharatiya Janata Celebration (BJP) tally had by no means crossed 182 seats, Modi led his occasion to a superlative 282-seat victory, and the BJP-led Nationwide Democratic Alliance (NDA) to 336 seats within the 543-member Lok Sabha. This was the primary time in 30 years—since Rajiv Gandhi piloted the Congress to a 414-seat win in 1984—that any occasion had gained a easy majority by itself. Modi labored his magic a second time in 2019, bettering the BJP’s earlier tally to 303 seats and the NDA’s to 352. This time, he’s staking his declare on two historic feats. The lesser peak: drawing degree with Jawaharlal Nehru by taking his occasion to a 3rd consecutive majority by itself. And the actual Everest: doing so with 400 seats, equalling Rajiv Gandhi’s report.
