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By Shyamantha Asokan NEW DELHI (Reuters) - Narendra Modi fought back tears in an emotional first address to his party in India's colonnaded parliament house on Tuesday, after the Hindu nationalist swept to power in an election that has changed the face of politics in the country. Modi will be India's next prime minister after leading the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) to a historic victory in a ballot that ended on Friday. The win handed the BJP its first parliamentary majority and reduced the Nehru-Gandhi dynasty's ruling Congress party to 44 seats, the lowest ever tally for a party that won India's independence and has ruled for most of the 67 years since. He addressed BJP lawmakers filling more than half the seats of the lower house with uplifting words that commentators immediately contrasted with the often wooden addresses of his predecessor Manmohan Singh.More...