The Hindu nationalist party of India’s Prime Minister Narendra Modi is celebrating big electoral wins. That includes inroads in West Bengal, India’s most populous state and a bastion of the opposition. Milan Vaishnav, director of the South Asia Program at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, tells Host Marco Werman the vote was not without controversy.
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