India's Modi Takes No Questions at 1st Press Conference

Narendra Modi left journalists disappointed on Friday as he refused to answer questions at what Indian media had billed as his first-ever press conference as prime minister. At the event in New Delhi, two days before the end of India's mammoth election, Modi made a statement but then deflected journalists' questions to the president of his party sat next to him. "I am a disciplined soldier, party president is supreme," Modi told one of two reporters who asked him a...

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