On Tuesday the United States appreciated Bharat’s parliamentary elections as the biggest exercise of democracy in the history.
State Department Spokesperson Matthew Miller appreciated the Bharatiya government and its voters for completing successfully the electoral process.
Mathew said during his daily news briefing, ‘On behalf of the United States, we want to commend the government of Bharat and voters there for successfully completing and participating in such an electoral undertaking, and we look forward to seeing final results’.
Miller emphasised the United States stance on not commenting on electoral winners and losers worldwide.
‘I’m also not going to comment on winners and losers in elections as is our case around the world. What’s important for us and what we have seen over the past six weeks is the largest exercise of democracy in history, as the Bharatiya people came to the polls’, he added.
On Tuesday, Prime Minister Narendra Modi poised to form the government for a third consecutive term with the BJP-led NDA getting a majority in the Lok Sabha.
In the election, the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) secured 240 seats, emerging as the single largest party in the 543-member Lok Sabha.
BJP’s key allies, the Telugu Desam Party (TDP) and Janata Dal (United) (JD(U)), were leading or winning 16 and 12 seats in Andhra Pradesh and Bihar, respectively.
With the support of other allies, the BJP-led National Democratic Alliance (NDA) was on track to reach the 272-majority mark
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