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India’s freshly re-elected prime minister, Narendra Modi, has called on the members of the new parliament to fulfil people’s wishes for “substance, not slogans,” as the body met for the first time. Modi told reporters that the parties in parliament should focus on finding consensus, as lawmakers sat for the first session since national elections in April and May. Modi’s Hindu nationalist BJP, which has been in power since 2014, lost its absolute majority in the election. Although the BJP remains the strongest force, Modi is now dependent on coalition partners to push through government policy …