Analysis: India’s Modi has been a bellwether for global populism
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Modi looks on track to win 300 parliamentary constituencies, well above the 272-seat majority mark. If the results hold, it will be a remarkable victory with international implications. “We help knit together this populist nationalist movement throughout the world,” Bannon told him. “So we’ve got guys, cause guys in Egypt are coming to me, Modi’s guys in India, Duterte, you know, and we get Orbán" https://t.co/I3EUKL46xk
These remarks led some Indian intellectuals, as well as those outside the country, who wanted more laissez-faire economics to offer tentative support. After decades of Indian politics being dominated by Congress with allegations of decadence and corruption, the humble-background and hard-working ethos of Modi seemed to represent something different.
His radical move to invalidate most of India’s bank notes as part of an anti-corruption “demonetization” policy hurt economic activity. “He’s no economic reformer,” Yashwant Sinha, a former finance minister who quit Modi’s party last year, recently told The Washington Post. A terrorist attack in Pulwama, the disputed region of Kashmir, in February led Modi to send fighter jets to conduct strikes within Pakistan, prompting a standoff between the two neighbors and rivals. Though India was embarrassed when a fighter pilot was shot down and captured by Pakistan, Modi’s tough rhetoric appeared to have had a rally-around-the-flag effect — and stood in stark contrast to his main rival, the soft-spoken Rahul Gandhi.
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