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.

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.

Rahul’s yankee rap

Shekhar Gupta - April 30, 2015

Congress vice president's anti-America attack on Modi flies in the face of his family's and world history. It'll find few takers outside of JNU.

Makeover at 44

Shekhar Gupta - April 23, 2015

Whatever Rahul Gandhi was doing during his sabbatical, he has rid himself of fatal flaws for a mass politician: shying from eye contact and building an image of flightiness.

Until holy cows come home: You call this maximum governance?

Shekhar Gupta - March 19, 2015

If Modi wishes to rise as a tall reformer PM, he must call the RSS/VHP bluff now.

Modi’s next test: The ‘other’ minority issue

Shekhar Gupta - February 19, 2015

In a democracy, the smallest minority also has a voice and, however much you may detest it, a special right to be heard over the din of the majority.

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