Modi party wins India's biggest state, strengthens grip on power

Narendra Modi's party won a landslide victory in India's most populous state on Saturday in a massive vote of confidence for the prime minister halfway into his first term.Modi's Hindu nationalist Bharatiya Janata Party won a surprise absolute majority in Uttar Pradesh in the north, which is home to 220 million people and seen as a key indicator of national politics.Party leader Amit Shah called the win a "historic mandate" for the BJP and said it would also form governments in Uttarakhand, Goa