mo4ch:>‘People gave their verdict’: India’s opposition leader Gandhi concedes defeat, congratulates Modi | Mo4ch News

The leader of India’s biggest opposition party Rahul Gandhi has admitted defeat and congratulated Narendra Modi on his party’s victory in the national elections. He could now lose his own seat in the Gandhi family’s ‘bastion.’“The people… have given their verdict,” the National Congress president told journalists at the party headquarters in Delhi as he congratulated Modi on his election victory. “I have to admit that it is the BJP which has won this time,” he added, referring to Modi’s Bharatiya Janata Party, which, together with its allies, is expected to get 337 out of the contested 542 seats in the lower house of the Indian parliament.Earlier, Modi already declared his victory, vowing to build “a strong and inclusive India.” Modi’s cabinet ministers hailed the election results calling them “a landslide” and a “political tsunami.”A three-time MP, Gandhi also had to concede defeat to a member of Modi’s BJP and the Textiles Minister Smriti Irani in the constituency of Amethi in India…