By Simon Tomlinson BJP prime ministerial canddiate Narendra Modi appeared on course for a landslide win in the country's weeks-long general election, with his party easily driving out the long-dominant Congress party in the world's biggest democracy. The party now has a commanding lead in 272 seats, the majority needed to move forward without forming a coalition in the lower house of Parliament. Modi tweeted: 'India has won. Good days are coming.' Scroll down for video Prime Ministerial candidate Narendra Modi (left) takes blessings from his mother Heeraben (right). The Bharatiya Janata Party, led by Modi, has won an absolute majority in the parliamentary polls
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