Children dressed as Santa Claus enjoying themselves during a Christmas celebration on Christmas Eve at a school in Amritsar on Tuesday (Dec 24). - AFP
NEW DELHI: Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi's Hindu nationalist party has lost a key state legislature election, a setback for the party as it faces massive anti-government protests against a contentious new citizenship law.
According to results announced by India's Election Commission lon Tuesday (Dec 24), Modi’s Bharatiya Janata Party, or BJP, yielded power to an alliance forged among the opposition Congress party and powerful regional groups in eastern Jharkhand state, where the voting took place this month.
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