The party of incumbent Prime Minister Narendra Modi has declared victory in India’s parliamentary elections. The people of the country had “expressed their confidence in his ruling coalition for the third time in a row,” Modi wrote on the X platform on Tuesday evening. After a portion of the votes had been counted, his Hindu nationalist Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) is likely to become the strongest party once again but will lose its absolute majority in the lower house of parliament. This would mean that it would have to rely on its two coalition partners to form a government. It was considere…