WASHINGTON, D.C.: Narendra Modi’s crushing victory in India’s elections presents an awkward task for Western powers who shunned the Hindu nationalist leader for years but see New Delhi as a crucial partner.

US President Barack Obama and other Western leaders invited the incoming prime minister to visit in congratulatory telephone calls and stressed common interests with the world’s largest democracy, after Modi’s Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) won India’s widest victory in three decades.

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