By Harmeet Shah Singh and Madison Park, CNN May 16, 2014 -- Updated 2043 GMT (0443 HKT) New Delhi (CNN) -- Narendra Modi, the leader of the Hindu nationalist Bharatiya Janata Party, claimed victory as India's next Prime Minister on Friday, bringing to power a man whose controversial past at one point led the United States to deny him a visa. Official results show his party winning at least 275 of 543 parliamentary seats, bringing a clear majority, according to the India Election Commission. It's the first time in three decades that India's 540 million voters delivered a resounding mandate to a single party to rule the world's second-most populous nation. But his past is not without controversy. Throughout his campaign, his relationship with the country's huge Muslim minority came under scrutiny. In 2002, Gujarat state was wracked with anti-Muslim violence, in which more than 1,000 people, mostly Muslims, were killed. Modi, the state's chief minister, was criticized for not doing enough to halt the violence. The United States denied Modi a visa because of his alleged role in anti-Muslim violence three years earlier in Gujarat state. The tensions between Modi and the United States in the past could have an impact on relations during his term, said Arati Jerath, an analyst and journalist in India. "There is a feeling that Narendra Modi will be much more pro-China than pro-U.S., and that could be rooted to the fact that he's had this tension with the United States over his visa, whereas the Chinese laid out the red carpet for him," Jerath said. http://edition.cnn.com/2014/05/16/world/asia/india-election-result/index.html?hpt=hp_t1 Obama will be very seething privately at Modi's win.
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