Setback For Modi After Loss In Key India State Poll By Sailendra Sil
on May 03 2021 5:14 AM
Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi s Hindu-nationalist party suffered a setback Sunday when it lost a fiercely contested state poll.
Over the past month India held its biggest democratic exercise in two years, with 175 million people eligible to vote in five regional elections.
But the marathon polls involved huge rallies where many attendees were maskless, and a record-breaking coronavirus spike coincided with the final phases of voting.
Experts blame complacency about the pandemic, as well as religious festivals attended by millions of devotees and political rallies, for the virus crisis.
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Setback For Modi With Key India State Poll Loss
05/02/21 AT 11:27 AM
Prime Minister Narendra Modi s Hindu-nationalist party suffered a setback Sunday when it lost a tightly contested and violence-hit state poll.
India held its biggest democratic exercise in two years over the past month, with 175 million people eligible to vote in five regional elections.
But the marathon polls involved huge rallies where many attendees were maskless, and a record-breaking coronavirus spike coincided with the final phases of voting.
The most important election was in the eastern state of West Bengal, home to 90 million people.
Modi and his right-hand man, Home Minister Amit Shah, campaigned heavily in the state as they sought to end a decade of rule by firebrand leader Mamata Banerjee.
Kelly Ripa and Mark Consuelos are celebrating 25 years of marriage.
The couple marked a quarter of a century married on Saturday (01.05.21) with sweet matching posts on photo sharing site Instagram, where Kelly branded Mark the love of her life .
Taking to Instagram to share a sweet anniversary tribute to her husband, she wrote: Happy 25th Anniversary to the love of my life @instasuelos in the blink of an eye. Because when you know, you know. Thank you for all of the dreams you made reality . (wedding, 5,10,15,20....#25) #silver (sic)
Whilst Mark shared a video of some of their favourite memories together and captioned it: @kellyripa .âIâll be loving you until the rainbow burns the stars out in the sky . alwaysâ. Happy 25th (sic)