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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.

Modi will now face serious heat

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If the BJP is the new Congress, the opposition won't take 40 years to unite against it.

Modi’s 2014 after-glow is over

Shekhar Gupta -
Why the Bihar defeat can be the best thing for him as PM, but only if he has the humility to read the writing on the wall

An unusual traveller

Shekhar Gupta -
Even New York cabbies take note as Modi drops by. Can he use foreign visits to craft a larger agenda?

Broken politics, constant combatants

Shekhar Gupta -
For India’s economy to get its mojo back, normalcy has to be first restored in its politics.

Art of big picture leadership

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

The Class of 1975

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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 -
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 -
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 -
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

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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.
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