How India's Political Landscape Shifted: Statista Racing Bar Animation
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Compared to 2019, the BJP lost 63 seats and was 32 seats shy of the 272-seat majority. For the first time since 2014, Modi will have to rely on other parties to secure a BJP-led government.
As this week’s Racing Bar shows, the BJP didn’t start rising to power until the late 1980s when it captured 85 seats in the ninth election since India gained independence. It first entered government in 1996 with 161 seats but was relegated to the opposition after just 13 days. In the snap election called in 1998 after the split of Janata Dal, part of the ruling coalition United Front, the BJP came into power again and managed to stay in government after another early election following a vote of no confidence in 1999.
Resuming the regular five-year interval between elections, the BJP was in opposition in 2004 and 2009 and has been the ruling party under Prime Minister Narendra Modi since 2014.
In the first decades since India’s independence, the country was governed either in a coalition or on its own by the Indian National Congress, the party of the country’s first Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru. Nehru’s daughter, Indira Gandhi, headed the party until her assassination in 1984 and was widely regarded as one of most important world leaders during her tenure, furthering economic development in the country and the reduction of poverty as well as being known for her authoritarian rule.
After her death, her son Rajiv Gandhi took over for one term as Prime Minister, before adapting the opposition leadership role in 1989 and being killed by a suicide bomber in 1991. His widow, Sonia Gandhi, declined party leadership but helped form the United Progressive Alliance made up from a variety of left-leaning parties which came into power in 2004.
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