‘Congress is upset with Modi being so popular among Muslim nations,’ PM said on 22 December 2019 at Ramlila Maidan. He said Saudis and UAE bestowed their highest honours on him. That, and a cynical politics of polarisation where loyalists freely offend Islam, cannot go together. Tough lesson for BJP.
Modi’s popularity among Muslim nations and politics of polarisation can’t go together
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