Narendra Modi thanks Indians for "historic mandate"

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Prime Minister Narendra Modi has thanked the people of India, after a landslide victory in the general election. His Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) won 303 of the 543 seats in parliament. Our presenter Fergus Nicoll presents live from Mumbai. We hear from voters in Mr Modi’s constituency at Varanasi on the River Ganges in Uttar Pradesh. Professor VN Mishra tells us what needs to be done to clean up the river and modernise an outdated sewerage system. Rahul Tandon updates us with the latest reaction from Kolkatta, also we hear from Shubhada Rao, Chief Economist at YES Bank in Mumbai about short-term objectives for Mr Modi's government. Stephen Ryan reports on the great strain to families of workers who have concluded that their best prospects lie abroad, most often in the Gulf. Fergus Nicoll, in conversation with Sushma Ramachandran, former Business Editor at The Hindu in Delhi, and Aparna Pande, Director of the Initiative on the Future of India and South Asia at the Hudson Institute in Washington DC. PHOTO: Narendra Modi, copyright: AFP