Voters in India Deliver Clear Mandate to Hindu Party
By ELLEN BARRY
The Hindu nationalist Bharatiya Janata Party’s enormous victory clearly
reflects a rapid change in Indian society as urbanization and economic
growth break down old voting patterns.
印度變天 人民黨大勝 莫迪將主政
印度國會大選結果出爐囉，強調經濟改革的印度民族主義政黨"印度人民黨"，取得國會過半席次，新總理印度人民黨的領袖莫迪出任。這是印度三十年來，第一次由單一政黨取得全面的勝利。
高舉勝利手勢，印度人民黨黨莫迪確定將成為印度新總理，人民黨這次大獲全勝，單獨在下院取得過半席次，創下印度30年來不曾出現過的局面，甚至是印度脫離英國統治將超過60年的紀錄，莫迪16號晚間出現在 競選總部門前，感謝支持者跟他一起寫下印度民主新頁。
==印度人民黨黨魁 莫迪==
今天，在印度60年的民主歷史中，各位締造了新的紀錄。
現年63歲的莫迪，16號傍晚在確定人民黨勝選，自己也將成為印度新總理後，先返回老家探視老齡的母親，並接受母親的祝福，隨即發表推文寫到「印度已經勝 利。好日子就要來臨」，這條推文立刻創下印度最多人轉推的紀錄。現任總理辛格也已致電莫迪道賀，辛格將在17號中午辭職。莫迪晚間轉往大本營，西部的古加 拉特省發表勝選感言，強調將成做全民總理，要讓21世紀成為印度的世紀。
==印度人民黨黨魁 莫迪==
我要帶領印度所有國民參與這趟發展之旅。兄弟姊妹們，世界上沒有任何力量能阻擋12.5億人口的國家。我們要讓21世紀成為印度的世紀，我只需要10年的時間，不會超過。
人民黨在大選中的得票率超過原先預期，根據印度選委會宣布的初步計票結果顯示，人民黨已經在543席的國會中贏得了超過過半地位所需的272席，預估可達 283席，如果加上友黨席次則可控制338席，至於從印度脫離英國獨立67年以來，只有13年未執政的國大黨，則在連續執政十年後面臨空前慘敗，席次恐不 到50席，上屆大選的的四分之一，創歷史新低。國大黨兵敗如山倒，也對甘地王朝的接班人，現年43歲的拉胡爾甘地造成重大打擊，拉胡爾跟擔任黨魁的母親桑 妮亞雖然順利當選，但母子都已公開承諾要為敗選負責。
==印度國大黨黨魁 桑妮雅甘地==
我是國大黨的黨魁，因此我承擔敗選責任。
==印度國大黨副主席 拉胡爾甘地==
首先我要恭喜新政府，他們獲得我國人民的授權，因此我要對新政府獻上祝福。
莫迪即將出任印度新總哩，美國總統歐巴馬親自致電恭賀，也歡迎莫迪訪問白宮，並期待密切合作。莫迪上任雖讓外界對印度的未來充滿期待，但分析家指出，莫迪 政府接下來必須應付許多艱鉅挑戰，印度經濟正陷入停滯性通膨，如何在經濟議題上讓印度人民立刻有感，成為這位茶販之子的首要挑戰。
記者 靳元慶 報導
高舉勝利手勢，印度人民黨黨莫迪確定將成為印度新總理，人民黨這次大獲全勝，單獨在下院取得過半席次，創下印度30年來不曾出現過的局面，甚至是印度脫離英國統治將超過60年的紀錄，莫迪16號晚間出現在 競選總部門前，感謝支持者跟他一起寫下印度民主新頁。
==印度人民黨黨魁 莫迪==
今天，在印度60年的民主歷史中，各位締造了新的紀錄。
現年63歲的莫迪，16號傍晚在確定人民黨勝選，自己也將成為印度新總理後，先返回老家探視老齡的母親，並接受母親的祝福，隨即發表推文寫到「印度已經勝 利。好日子就要來臨」，這條推文立刻創下印度最多人轉推的紀錄。現任總理辛格也已致電莫迪道賀，辛格將在17號中午辭職。莫迪晚間轉往大本營，西部的古加 拉特省發表勝選感言，強調將成做全民總理，要讓21世紀成為印度的世紀。
==印度人民黨黨魁 莫迪==
我要帶領印度所有國民參與這趟發展之旅。兄弟姊妹們，世界上沒有任何力量能阻擋12.5億人口的國家。我們要讓21世紀成為印度的世紀，我只需要10年的時間，不會超過。
人民黨在大選中的得票率超過原先預期，根據印度選委會宣布的初步計票結果顯示，人民黨已經在543席的國會中贏得了超過過半地位所需的272席，預估可達 283席，如果加上友黨席次則可控制338席，至於從印度脫離英國獨立67年以來，只有13年未執政的國大黨，則在連續執政十年後面臨空前慘敗，席次恐不 到50席，上屆大選的的四分之一，創歷史新低。國大黨兵敗如山倒，也對甘地王朝的接班人，現年43歲的拉胡爾甘地造成重大打擊，拉胡爾跟擔任黨魁的母親桑 妮亞雖然順利當選，但母子都已公開承諾要為敗選負責。
==印度國大黨黨魁 桑妮雅甘地==
我是國大黨的黨魁，因此我承擔敗選責任。
==印度國大黨副主席 拉胡爾甘地==
首先我要恭喜新政府，他們獲得我國人民的授權，因此我要對新政府獻上祝福。
莫迪即將出任印度新總哩，美國總統歐巴馬親自致電恭賀，也歡迎莫迪訪問白宮，並期待密切合作。莫迪上任雖讓外界對印度的未來充滿期待，但分析家指出，莫迪 政府接下來必須應付許多艱鉅挑戰，印度經濟正陷入停滯性通膨，如何在經濟議題上讓印度人民立刻有感，成為這位茶販之子的首要挑戰。
記者 靳元慶 報導
Indian election: Narendra Modi in Delhi victory parade
Narendra Modi: "We have to take India forward."
India's
Prime Minister-elect Narendra Modi has received a hero's welcome at his
BJP party's headquarters in Delhi after securing the most decisive
election victory in three decades.
He was cheered by supporters after a victory parade from the airport.Current PM Manmohan Singh, whose Congress party was crushed in the poll, is expected to resign later.
Mr Modi, a Hindu nationalist and chief minister of Gujarat, campaigned on promises to revive the economy.
Results show the BJP gained a majority in parliament and will be able to govern without coalition partners.
However, many Indians still have profound concerns over Mr Modi because of claims he did little to stop communal riots in Gujarat in 2002 in which at least 1,000 people died, most of them Muslims.
Mr Modi has always denied the allegations and was never charged.
'India has won'
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Make no mistake, the scourge of unrelenting inflation turned the poor and the middle class against Congress: for the last three-and-a-half years India has been suffering its highest rate of inflation for 20 years, one that has also been higher than the world average.
This, many say, was the immediate trigger for people's anger and disenchantment with Congress.
Then there was what many call the party's failure to adapt to a changing India, which was moving, in the words of one commentator, from a "petitional to an aspirational culture".
Make no mistake, the scourge of unrelenting inflation turned the poor and the middle class against Congress: for the last three-and-a-half years India has been suffering its highest rate of inflation for 20 years, one that has also been higher than the world average.
This, many say, was the immediate trigger for people's anger and disenchantment with Congress.
Then there was what many call the party's failure to adapt to a changing India, which was moving, in the words of one commentator, from a "petitional to an aspirational culture".
After arriving in Delhi from his
home state of Gujarat, Mr Modi was greeted by flag-waving supporters. He
stepped out of his car, flashing a victory sign.
A brass band, drummers and bagpipers met him at the BJP headquarters, while bunting and balloons decorated the street.Noticeably tight security is in place, the BBC's Sanjoy Majumder in Delhi reports.
With votes still being counted, the BJP has won more than the 272 seats needed for a parliamentary majority.
With its allies, the party could get more than 330 seats out of 543.
"India has won, good days are about to come," Mr Modi tweeted on Friday.
He later told his cheering supporters: "In the 60-year history of Indian independence, I have never seen this in the Indian media, what you have done in our country."
Narendra Modi: "The age of divisive politics has ended"
Mr Modi was greeted by supporters as he arrived in Delhi
Current Prime Minister Manmohan Singh is expected to hand in his resignation later on Saturday
"The real government will belong from Kashmir on top to Kanya Kumari [on India's southern tip] - that is a real government.
"The age of divisive politics has ended - from today onwards the politics of uniting people will begin."
World leaders, including US President Barack Obama and UK Prime Minister David Cameron, have congratulated Mr Modi on his victory.
India's new leader has received invitations to Washington and London. Previously, the US denied him visas and the UK cut off all ties with him following the 2002 riots.
Pakistani Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif commended the BJP's "impressive victory" in the election.
Congress Party President Sonia Gandhi: "I respect the verdict of the people"
Congress has been mired in serious corruption scandals and its leadership has been considered ineffective in recent years, analysts say.
Accepting defeat, Congress President Sonia Gandhi said: "We humbly respect the verdict of the people."
In a televised farewell address, Manmohan Singh said the government had achieved a lot in the last 10 years, adding: "I wish the incoming government every success."
He is expected to meet the president later on Saturday to formally resign.
The BBC's Andrew North travelled to Narendra Modi's home state of Gujarat
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From tea-seller to India's top job: The rise of Narendra Modi
From
selling tea to leading his party to a landslide national election
victory, Narendra Modi achieved a remarkable rise in a country long led
by political dynasties and social elites.
Narendra Damodardas Modi was born Sept. 17, 1950, to a poor family in Vadnagar, in what is now the western state of Gujarat. The third of six children, the young Modi helped his father sell tea at the Vadnagar railway station and, as a teenager, ran a tea stall with his brother near a bus terminal.
Teachers remember him as an average student but keen debater who had an interest in theater.
His family arranged his marriage to Jashodaben Chimanlal when he was 18. Modi acknowledged the marriage for the first time earlier this year, when he filed to run in the election. It was never consummated, according to his biographer, Nilanjan Mukhopadhyay.
Leaving behind his young wife, Modi joined the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh, a right-wing Hindu nationalist group. He thrived in the RSS, a volunteer organization that prizes discipline and service to the nation, and he was eventually named to head its student wing.
In the late 1980s, he began working closely with the upstart Bharatiya Janata Party, the RSS’s ideological cousin, becoming its national secretary in 1998.
He became chief executive of Gujarat in October 2001. Just four months into his term, a train car carrying Hindu worshipers caught fire in mysterious circumstances, killing 59 people. Hindu leaders accused Muslims of setting the blaze, sparking communal riots that killed more than 1,000 people, most of them Muslims.
Modi’s government faced accusations of allowing -- even inciting -- the killing spree. But he denied complicity and was cleared of wrongdoing by several inquiries.
In the charged atmosphere, Modi’s chauvinistic Hindu rhetoric played well with voters, and he easily won elections in Gujarat in 2002 and 2007.
Celibate, vegetarian and a teetotaler, Modi earned a reputation for ruthless efficiency, pushing aside party stalwarts with whom he clashed and taking charge of nearly all the key departments in the state government.
On his watch, the Indian car maker Tata opened a major factory in Gujarat to produce a low-cost automobile. Although the project failed, it earned Modi admiration for his aggressive pursuit of jobs and corporate investment.
Eyeing national office, Modi began to soften his image, observing a number of fasts during a "sadbhavana," or goodwill, mission across Gujarat in 2011.
Time magazine put him on the cover of its Asia edition in 2012, and the following year his party made him its candidate for prime minister.
“Good days are coming," Modi told a huge crowd of supporters in Vadodara, the western city where he won a parliamentary seat Friday. “From today, for the next five years, the journey has started.”
Parth is a special correspondent.
Narendra Damodardas Modi was born Sept. 17, 1950, to a poor family in Vadnagar, in what is now the western state of Gujarat. The third of six children, the young Modi helped his father sell tea at the Vadnagar railway station and, as a teenager, ran a tea stall with his brother near a bus terminal.
Teachers remember him as an average student but keen debater who had an interest in theater.
His family arranged his marriage to Jashodaben Chimanlal when he was 18. Modi acknowledged the marriage for the first time earlier this year, when he filed to run in the election. It was never consummated, according to his biographer, Nilanjan Mukhopadhyay.
Leaving behind his young wife, Modi joined the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh, a right-wing Hindu nationalist group. He thrived in the RSS, a volunteer organization that prizes discipline and service to the nation, and he was eventually named to head its student wing.
In the late 1980s, he began working closely with the upstart Bharatiya Janata Party, the RSS’s ideological cousin, becoming its national secretary in 1998.
He became chief executive of Gujarat in October 2001. Just four months into his term, a train car carrying Hindu worshipers caught fire in mysterious circumstances, killing 59 people. Hindu leaders accused Muslims of setting the blaze, sparking communal riots that killed more than 1,000 people, most of them Muslims.
Modi’s government faced accusations of allowing -- even inciting -- the killing spree. But he denied complicity and was cleared of wrongdoing by several inquiries.
In the charged atmosphere, Modi’s chauvinistic Hindu rhetoric played well with voters, and he easily won elections in Gujarat in 2002 and 2007.
Celibate, vegetarian and a teetotaler, Modi earned a reputation for ruthless efficiency, pushing aside party stalwarts with whom he clashed and taking charge of nearly all the key departments in the state government.
On his watch, the Indian car maker Tata opened a major factory in Gujarat to produce a low-cost automobile. Although the project failed, it earned Modi admiration for his aggressive pursuit of jobs and corporate investment.
Eyeing national office, Modi began to soften his image, observing a number of fasts during a "sadbhavana," or goodwill, mission across Gujarat in 2011.
Time magazine put him on the cover of its Asia edition in 2012, and the following year his party made him its candidate for prime minister.
“Good days are coming," Modi told a huge crowd of supporters in Vadodara, the western city where he won a parliamentary seat Friday. “From today, for the next five years, the journey has started.”
Parth is a special correspondent.
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