TopicNarendra Modi

Topic: Narendra Modi

Narendra Modi is India’s 14th prime minister and has been in power since May 2014. He is the first prime minister to have been born after Independence. Modi is a leader of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) and has served as Gujarat Chief Minister from 2001 to 2014. His Lok Sabha constituency Varanasi, though, is in Uttar Pradesh, and Modi has represented this seat since 2014.

Narendra Modi joined the RSS, the BJP’s ideological parent, in the 1970s and joined the BJP in 1987. The following year he was chosen as the party’s general secretary for Gujarat. Modi took oath as Gujarat CM in 2001, after replacing Keshubhai Patel, who was held responsible for the government’s poor response to the Bhuj earthquake. Modi contested his first-ever election in 2002, shortly after which the Gujarat riots fueled controversy over his leadership. The Supreme Court in 2022 gave a clean chit to Modi and 63 others in a plea exploring a larger conspiracy behind the riots.

Art of big picture leadership

Shekhar Gupta - 17 July, 2015

Can Modi take a cue from friend Barack and prove he does not fear to negotiate with his own adversaries?

The Class of 1975

Shekhar Gupta - 26 June, 2015

Why I call the emergency a university of democratisation: just take a look at its major graduates, right up to Narendra Modi.

Silence and surround sound

Shekhar Gupta - 2 April, 2015

Will Modi seize the reality check that a majority of Indians, including his 2014 voters, do not approve of a majoritarian agenda?

A storyline for economic right

Shekhar Gupta - 26 February, 2015

For the Right, it's not that its economics is more flawed than that of the Left. It's just that it has inadequate salesmen of their new ideas. These include Modi.

Obama at Rajpath: Not just another selfie moment

Shekhar Gupta - 27 November, 2014

Merely running your eye over the list of Republic Day chief guests over the decades gives you an unambiguous overview of Indian foreign policy’s total anti-Western toxification.

Coalition dharma rewrite: Winner takes all

Shekhar Gupta - 13 November, 2014

Modi's decisive victory in 2014 upended one of the main postulates of coalition politics — that each alliance has some 'essential' allies, while others gravitate to the winning side.

Making sense of Xi slap

Shekhar Gupta - 25 September, 2014

Timed perfectly with Xi’s arrival in Ahmedabad was that of nearly a 1,000 PLA soldiers in Ladakh’s Chumar area. There is a pattern to China’s actions: it is testing India’s resolve.

Getting his foreign policy right

Shekhar Gupta - 4 September, 2014

Modi has already shown he is different in the way he cancelled talks with Pakistan, just because its high commissioner met Hurriyat leaders, till now a routine and passing blip on media radar.

Pracharak Modi: True to his mask

Shekhar Gupta - 21 August, 2014

The mask and the real face are exactly the same, physically as well as metaphorically. To that extent, Modi is genuinely a leader of the nationalist Hindu Right.

Talk less

Shekhar Gupta - 31 May, 2014

After winning such a clear, affirmative verdict, the last thing PM Modi needs is to fritter away his freshly earned political capital with needless and irrelevant controversy.

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Topic: Narendra Modi

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Modi’s speech rightly questions politics of appeasement. Wrongly targets all Muslims

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