Election Results 2019: Newspapers from around the world react to Modi's landslide win
The New York Times
The New York Times referred to the 'Chowkidar' term used by Modi and his supporters. The narrative of 'Chowkidar' protecting the country and the counter-narrative ''Chowkidar Chor hai'' was the most intense verbal duel in the election campaign. The headline surely took a quirky approach.
"Under him, mob lynchings have shot up, Muslim representation in Parliament has dropped to its lowest level in decades, and right-wing Hindus have felt emboldened to push an extreme agenda, including lionizing the man who fatally shot the independence hero Mohandas K. Gandhi." The article read
The Guardian
The Guardian took a dig at the win. The headline was full of congratulations, but then there was an addition. It termed Modi as a Hindu nationalist leader, and also took a jibe at his economic reforms, possibly suggesting their failure.
The emphatic victory will be greeted with dismay among some members of religious minority groups, who have voiced fears that a returned BJP government would be further emboldened to prosecute its Hindu nationalist agenda, including controversial citizenship-status checks to root out unauthorized migrantsin border states.
Al Jazeera
Much like The Guardian, the Al Jazeera also branded Modi as a nationalist leader. Maybe a hint at Modi and his party's blatant stand onpatriotism and its use as a politicaltool.
BBC
The BBC had a simplistic approach. A headline without jibes or digs.
CNN
"The results follow a polarizing electionduring which Modi and the BJP portrayed the incumbent less as an economic reformer -- the main message in the 2014 elections that first brought Modi to national office -- and more as a muscular nationalist firmly rooted in the Hindu right-wing movement, a turn that made many liberals and minority Indians nervous." CNN wrote