(16 May 2014) Senior figures within the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) hailed Friday's apparent landslide victory as a "sign of hope" for the country.
"You will not see an election of this kind in any other democratic country in the world," senior BJP leader LK Advani said at a rally outside the party's offices in New Delhi.
Results announced on Friday after a five-week election contest gave the BJP a commanding lead for at least 272 of 543 seats in Parliament. It was the first time in three decades that any single party in India has won a clear majority.
"The kind of support that Narendra Modi and the BJP have received is a sign of hope for change," said senior BJP official Ravi Shankar Prasad.
Full results are expected later on Friday but it's unlikely that there would be a significant reversal.
The outcome was a crushing defeat for Congress, a party deeply entwined with the Nehru-Gandhi political dynasty that has been at the centre of Indian politics for most of the country's post-independence history.
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