Muslims in India get a little relief after Modi's party weakens

The results of India's general election show that Prime Minister Narendra Modi's coalition has won far fewer seats than expected.

Experts say the strengthening of the opposition parties   will bring some measure of comfort to Muslims in India, who have faced years of extreme discrimination under Modi's hard-line Hindu nationalist government known as Hinduvata.

Speaking to the Middle East Monitor, PK Niaz, a senior journalist based in Qatar, said that while Narendra Modi and his Hindu nationalist allies have remained in power in India's general election, the major gains of the opposition parties will provide some comfort to Muslims who are minority in the country which has faced decades of discrimination and oppression by Hindu extremists.

Official results published this week by the Election Commission of India confirmed that Modi's National Democratic Alliance (NDA), which includes his right-wing Hindutva party, the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), won 294 seats, more than 272 seats needed to get the leadership of the parliament, but it is less than expected. For the first time since the BJP came to power in 2014, it did not get a majority on its own, winning 240 seats, less than the record 303 it won in the 2019 election. and Muslims, you got 223 seats.

The election results show that Modi's Hindutva gangs, which attack Muslims, can no longer have a free hand in implementing their anti-Islam agenda.