Editing Politics of India (section)

==== National Democratic Alliance (NDA) ====
{{Main|National Democratic Alliance}}
[[National Democratic Alliance]] (NDA), a centre-right to right-wing coalition led by BJP was formed in 1998 after the [[1998 Indian general election|elections]]. NDA formed a government, although the government did not last long as [[All India Anna Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam|AIADMK]] withdrew support from it resulting in [[1999 Indian general election|1999 general elections]], in which NDA won and resumed power. The coalition government went on to complete the full five-years term, becoming the first non-Congress government to do so.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Agrawal |first=Puroshottam |date=1999-09-01 |title=Identity debate clouds India's elections |url=https://mondediplo.com/1999/09/10india |access-date=2022-09-20 |website=Le Monde diplomatique |language=en}}</ref> 

After securing a defeating in 2004 General Election and 2009 General Elections against the United Progressive Alliance (UPA), the NDA once again returned to power in the [[2014 Indian general election|2014 General Elections]], for the second time, with a historic mandate of 336 out of 543 Lok Sabha seats. BJP itself won 282 seats, thereby electing [[Narendra Modi]] as the head of the government. In a historic win, the NDA stormed to power for the third term in [[2019 Indian general election|2019]] with a combined strength of 353 seats, with the BJP itself winning an absolute majority with 303 seats.

In the [[2024 Indian general election]] the NDA, though lost a couple of seats  succeeded to form the government by winning 293 seats with a major support from allies like [[Telugu Desam Party]] (16 seats) and [[Janata Dal (United)]] (12 seats).