NEW DELHI, May 16, 2014 (AFP) – India’s triumphant Hindu nationalists declared “the start of a new era” in the world’s biggest democracy Friday as the ruling Congress conceded defeat in elections that exposed anger about sickly economic growth and rampant corruption.
Preliminary results at the climax of the marathon six-week election showed the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) and its hardline leader Narendra Modi on track for the first parliamentary majority by a single party in 30 years.
Most of the country’s 1.2 billion people – more than half of whom are under 25 – weren’t even born the last time a party had such a domi…
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