After six weeks and 600 million votes, India's Prime Minister Narendra Modi is celebrating a stunning victory.

Voters gave the BJP party a majority in parliament, winning or leading in 352 seats in the lower house of parliament—surpassing the 272-seat majority needed to form a government.  

Modi secured a bigger victory than in 2014, something no Indian party has accomplished in 48 years. The prime minister tweeted on May 23, "Thank you India! The faith placed in our alliance is humbling and gives us strength to work even harder to fulfill people's aspirations."

The leader of India's main opposition Congress party, Rahul Gandhi, congratulated Modi. In a stunning defeat, Gandhi also lost his own parliamentary seat, which his family has held for generations.

Subramanian Swamy, who is a nominated member of the Upper House of the Indian Parliament, thinks there are multiple factors which made Modi's victory so complete, saying Modi's personality played an important role in the election. 

"Nobody has been able to pin any corruption charge against him," Swamy says. In addition, on a general level, nobody in the government was accused of any corruption like in the past. 

Moreover, new voters in India from the younger generations are very nationalistic and targeted by social media, which Modi is keen on. 

"These factors together are responsible for a victory. And India economic issues have a very marginal effect," Swamy adds. The question of unemployment, for example, is a serious problem but rarely came up for discussion.

Shareen Joshi, an associate professor at the Walsh School of Foreign Service at Georgetown University, indicates the result of this election was a presidential-style campaign in a parliamentary democracy. 

"They had a clear narrative focusing on a strong and decisive leader," she says, adding "they had solid strategies and a very strong grassroots operation." 

Although the opposition party had a manifesto with good ideas and a convincing leader, they had a weak organizational strategy in the past five years.

"What you see is a big win for the BJP, but it is also built on the back of a weakness in the opposition," Joshi says.

Joshi thinks India still has huge economic problems. "Successes that have been touted on the development agenda have not frankly reached scale yet." 

She considers that the BJP party has two faces: one face of a modern reformist India, and the other face of Hindu nationalism. "In the past five years, the BJP has not delivered to the maximum extent on either of these (faces), and it hasn't made anyone's worst fears come true either," she adds.

Rwitwika Battacharya, who is the CEO of the non-partisan organization, Swaniti Initiative, thinks Prime Minister Modi has launched lots of resonant programs in India. She takes the "open defecation free" initiative as an example, saying when she was in rural east India a few weeks ago, the local people told her they now had toilets. Modi actually did many works on the ground which benefited the people.

Modi's campaign has "a very strong targeted focus towards women in making them feel as voters," Battacharya says. 

In terms of young voters, unemployment is a big issue but not an issue which emerges now. She believes what did resonate with young people was that there was lots of pride in this prime minister in the last five years.

Srinivas Thiruvandanthai, who is the director of research at the Jerome Levy Forecasting Center, considers that Modi is very popular among women and young people. He thinks many of Modi's programs are directed at women, for instance, one of his programs was getting LPG cylinders to low-income families, and women can benefit more than men. 

"These things have been a huge force in mobilizing poor voters," he says. Young people in India are more concerned with security issues, and Modi's strategy towards Pakistan issues resonated with them directly.

Thiruvandanthai thinks part of the problems for the economy in the last five years was dealing with the excesses of the previous regime. 

"The government has taken some missteps, but overall it was a tough medicine that has to be taken," he says. 

He thinks there are some positive developments, especially the bankruptcy reform. And there has been a lot of recovery of bad loans compared to the past.

In terms of foreign policy, Swamy suggests that the Modi administration wants multi-dimensional India-US relations. China is their neighbor and they also want to be friends with it. 

"We would like to have a triangular relationship between the United States, China and ourselves, but we have commonality with Americans because we have a huge non-resident Indian population in the United States, the communication is much easier," he says, "and we also have cultural sync with China."

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