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: Your time starts now

Shekhar Gupta - 17 May, 2014

Modi has run a brilliant and single-minded campaign. People have gifted him the power to change history, to mould it in his image and he needs to handle this very carefully.

Anticipating India

Shekhar Gupta - 26 April, 2014

A selection of the pieces from the book (HarperCollins Publishers India and Express Book Series) that foreshadowed the big changes.

When Mary Kom stares down at Narendra Modi

Shekhar Gupta - 23 April, 2014

Writings on the wall is a metaphor that emerged from travels across India, particularly, but not necessarily, during elections (for earlier writings, see goo.gl/v83OBh,...

After May 16

Shekhar Gupta - 12 April, 2014

Bid goodbye to the way things have been in India's politics. Whatever his tally finally, Narenda Modi will have risen as India’s preeminent political personality.

Help us imagine, Rahulji

Shekhar Gupta - 14 December, 2013

Shekhar Gupta argues that for a rapidly declining and self-destructive Congress to rejuvenate, change should first come from the top, i,.e., the Gandhi family.

Disarming Kashmir

Shekhar Gupta - 7 December, 2013

Politics has to build on military success. Armies that stay on too long after fulfilling their immediate task tend to become lazy and complacent, even if not armies of occupation.

Or else, Modi

Shekhar Gupta - 16 November, 2013

The Congress cannot win a third term just by scaring us all of Modi. Because 2014 is a far cry from 1984. And because we are not scared of Modi, even those who won’t vote for him.

The Congress’s Modi

Shekhar Gupta - 7 September, 2013

Narendra Modi, a divisive and polarising figure, is as much a candidate of the Congress as the BJP: it is just that one is trying to make him win, and the other to make him lose.

Dear Narendrabhai

SGIN - 31 August, 2013

Narendra Modi's intervention is needed in land boundary agreement India and Bangladesh signed since the matter rests with BJP and is caught within its messy but utterly transparent, internal power tussle.

Modi-Hit

Shekhar Gupta - 3 August, 2013

Modi's appearance on centrestage, and the polarisation it promises, has sent some of the BJP's old rivals scurrying for a share of the Muslim vote.

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