India’s election shows the world’s largest democracy is still a democracy
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India’s election shows the world’s largest democracy is still a democracy

If the basic test of whether a country remains a democracy is that the party in power can still suffer a setback at the ballot box, India passed on Tuesday. Results from the nation’s parliamentary elections — the largest in the world — indicate a shocking electoral setback for Prime Minister Narendra Modi and his Hindu nationalist Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP).  “Setback,” to be clear, is a relative term here. At the end of the staggered six-week election, Modi will become only the...