Shoppers are seen at Khan Market, a shopping centre in New Delhi, India, May 28, 2019. REUTERS/Anushree Fadnavis
NEW DELHI (Reuters) - A tatty shopping centre originally built to house refugees in the heart of New Delhi has become a handy symbol for Prime Minister Narendra Modi and his supporters to rub salt in the wounds of their opponents, who just got a drubbing in India's general election.
In the final days of his campaigning in the election, which his Hindu nationalist Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) won by a landslide for the second consecutive term, Modi used the jibe "Khan Market gang" to mock his political adversaries and India's English speaking elite.
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