Narendra Modi was re-elected Prime Minister of India

Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi today has a five-year term after the victory of his nationalist and pro-market party wide victory in the general elections of most populous democracy of the world.

With the control still in progress, Modi's Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) got 302 of 543 places of the lower house of Parliament, making a defeat the biggest party of opposition which marks the end of an era for the main political dynasty of India.

"It is the citizens of this country who came out victorious.If anyone won, that is democracy," said the Prime Minister, while celebrating his triumph in front of thousands of supporters of the seat of the BJP in New Delhi.

The 68-year-old head of government said there were only two castes in India, "the poor and those who want to work to lift them out of poverty." "We need to empower both of them," he added by promising a future "inclusive" for your country

The triumph of the BJP crushes the hope of returning to power from the Gandhi-Nehru dynasty. Rahul Gandhi, great-grandson, grandson and son of three prime ministers, hoped to become the fourth family member to lead India.

After unsuccessfully trying to attack Modi, including alleged corruption and the desperate situation of the farmers and the economic gloom, he finally had to accept his defeat.

"The peoples are the real leaders and have decided in favor of the BJP, I congratulate Modi and the BJP," said the party leader of Congress, who ruled India for most of its modern history and who only has 51 seats.

In addition, in a personal humiliation, Gandhi admitted that his family had also lost his traditional stronghold, Amethi, whose bank was won by a BJP candidate, reported BBC.

A marathon election

The vast expanse of India, stretching from the Himalayas to the tropics by absorbing megacities, deserts and jungles, has made the election a seven-stage marathon effort and demanding six weeksfrom April 11th to May 19th.

With a participation that exceeded 60% on average, it is estimated that 600 million Indians They voted in the ballot box.

The campaign, which would cost more than $ 7,000 million, was marked by insults: Modi was compared to Hitler and a "sewer bug", as well as fake news on Facebook and WhatsApp.

Modi is seen as a divisional personality. The cases of lynching of Muslims and Dalits – the poorest and most discriminated members of India – have multiplied under the effect of the exaltation of Hindu nationalism, which has provoked a great agitation among the 170 million Muslims living in the country.

However, Modi, 68, has managed to turn the elections into a sort of plebiscite on its silhouette and its managementand he did not hesitate to present himself (in the third person) as the only one able to defend India.

Asia's third economy is growing too slowly to create jobs for the one million Indians who enter the labor market each month, Unemployment in India is at its highest point in four decades, which makes this issue one of the main challenges that Modi will face.

In foreign policy, relationship with Pakistan The main challenge will continue after neighbors and nuclear powers are on the verge of their third war after the death of 40 soldiers in an attack by radical Islamists on the Indian side of the disputed Kashmir region.

Pakistani Prime Minister Imran Khan congratulated Modi on his victory and said he expected to work "for peace, progress and prosperity from South Asia. "