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Indian PM Modi set to take oath for third time on June 8 as allies pledge support

The weakened majority for Modi’s alliance could pose challenges for the more ambitious elements of the government’s reform agenda, says ratings agency Fitch

Prime Minister Narendra Modi and the BJP are politically diminished after losing ground to a revived opposition bloc that successfully wrested territory with a campaign focused on economic issues.

India’s election surprise: What went wrong for Modi and what comes next

The BJP will have to govern with partners for the first time since Modi came to power in 2014

The BJP looks set for heavy losses in the bellwether northern state of Uttar Pradesh, as the opposition Samajwadi Party and Congress race ahead in more than half of its 80 seats, including in Ayodhya city in the Faizabad constituency where Modi inaugurated the temple in January.

India's BJP concedes defeat in Ayodhya, where Modi opened grand Ram temple

“I could not protect your and Ayodhya’s dignity, there must have been some shortcoming in me,” says Lallu Singh, the BJP’s incumbent lawmaker from Faizabad