TopicPM Modi

Topic: PM 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.

Dial 2016 for Emergency

Shekhar Gupta - November 5, 2016

India is complacent if not complicit as in 1975-77. Dangers are bigger now as we have a clear external enemy, strong economy and feckless opposition.

Old game, new rules

Shekhar Gupta - August 17, 2016

Indian and Pakistan have both followed a consistent policy of talk-talk, fight-fight since the Kashmir insurgency began in 1989. By invoking Balochistan and northern areas, Modi has changed it to 'you mess with our soft underbelly, we will mess with your most vulnerable region.

Why BJP has more lessons to learn about governance

Shekhar Gupta - May 22, 2016

Post assembly-polls, Narendra Modi should not miss the opportunity to change course and discourse, from combat to governance.

Five predictable results make for an uncertain 2019

Shekhar Gupta - May 20, 2016

BJP's leadership has earned itself a post-Bihar reprieve, but it hasn't brought them a more convincing nationwide claim in 2019.

When proxy comes to shove

Shekhar Gupta - December 26, 2015

That attack is on Arun Jaitley, but the target is Narendra Modi — so watch the next four weeks to see how the PM responds.

Narendra Modi – candidate to PM

Shekhar Gupta - November 21, 2015

Why the prime minister's legacy will depend on how he governs, not the number of state elections he fights as personality contests.

Pulping the Modi script on Muslims

Shekhar Gupta - November 13, 2015

How BJP's panicky return to basic-instinct majoritarianism in Bihar has pushed Muslims back into 'secular' basement.

What Modi established with Silicon Valley focus

Shekhar Gupta - September 28, 2015

The rise of Modi with a full majority in Lok Sabha has raised global expectations. That’s why there is a great deal of work left to do.

Speaking truth to the great orator

Shekhar Gupta - August 21, 2015

Modi is by far India's most powerful, domineering, instinctive — and very popular — political figure. Why then is his government floundering?

Abki Baar, U-turn sarkar

Shekhar Gupta - May 14, 2015

In his first year, Modi has shown boldness and pragmatism, whatever the static over cow meat, ghar wapsi, and has successfully pulled his government from the set RSS/BJP construct of ideas.

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