India's Modi Leads BJP To Historic Poll Win -- Al Jazeera
Main opposition party on course to secure clear majority by defeating ruling Congress party in general elections.
Narendra Modi, India’s Prime Minister-elect, has promised to work to "fulfil the dreams of 1.2 billion people" as he addressed his supporters for the first time after he led his Hindu nationalist Bharatiya Janata Party to a landslide election victory.
Thousands of his supporters from across his constituency of Vadodara in western Gujarat state turned out to hear the 63-year-old former tea boy who is poised to become prime minister of the world's second-most populous nation.
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