The Group’s stocks rose strongly on Monday, following exit polls that predicted a landslide for Modi, but reversed all gains Tuesday as trends showed the BJP would fall well short of a single-party majority.
Fall in stock markets comes after they rallied more than 3% Monday, the first day of trading after the exit polls predicted a comfortable victory for BJP.
Foreign portfolio investors have offloaded shares worth 170.83 billion rupees ($2.05 billion) in just seven sessions in May, the highest since January.
The NSE Nifty 50 index lost 1.34% to 19,281.75. The S&P BSE Sensex fell 1.26% to 64,571.88, biggest single-day loss since July 1, beginning a truncated week on a lackluster note.
Govt says digital payments also uplift under-served communities by providing them financial footprint that can be used to assess credit worthiness in absence of traditional documents.
As Narendra Modi becomes India’s second-longest consecutively serving Prime Minister, we look at how he compares with Indira Gandhi across four key dimensions.
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