New Delhi

Modi victory: A triumphant Prime Minister

Narendra Modi was sworn in for a second fiveyear term last week, having won a landslide election victory with his Hindu nationalist Bharatiya

Janata Party. Despite rising unemployment, the BJP secured 303 seats in India’s 543-seat lower house of Parliament—up from 282 in the 2014 election—by campaigning on nationalist and religious themes. Including his coalition partners, Modi now controls 349 legislators, close to the two-thirds majority he would need to change the constitution. Not everyone supports Modi’s Hindu agenda, though. On the day of his inauguration, the BJP’s website was hacked and its photos and articles were replaced with images of steak and recipes for beef dishes. Cows are sacred to Hindus, and the BJP has banned sales of beef in some provinces.