DHAKA: Nobel laureate Amartya Sen was not in favor of Narendra Modi forming the government but having won in the recent elections and as a democratic Indian, he believes Modi has every right to govern and govern well.

Addressing a packed audience at Asia House in London on Monday, Sen dwelt on many lessons that India needed to learn from its Asian neighbours such as Japan and China.

He particularly focussed on India’s challenges in education, healthcare and power, reports Hindustan Times.

Speaking to HT later, Sen said the landslide election results in favour of the BJP did not mean any fundamental changes had taken place in Indian society.

The party had got only 31 percent votes, and such results were not unusual in the present electoral system, he said.

Stating that the Left in India had ‘imploded as of now’, Sen told the audience comprising diplomats, bankers and leading individuals from various fields that every new government had to function in a secular milieu watched by a largely secular media, courts and the opposition.

BDST: 1519 HRS, JULY 02, 2014