Opinion: This is Modi’s India now
Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi receives a garland from leaders of his Bharatiya Janata Party in New Delhi after their electoral victory on Thursday. By Barkha Dutt Barkha Dutt Email Bio Follow May 23 at 4:58 PM Narendra Modi’s unprecedented victory in the 2019 elections is proof that India and her politics have been irrevocably altered.
India has changed. The kind of traditional patchwork politics that threaded together varying personalities and points of view under one coalition umbrella are now a thing of the past. Modi’s message of unbridled nationalism and Hindu identity drowned out the sort of issues that would have put any other candidate on the defensive. In the end, the state of the economy or simmering social tensions didn’t matter much.
The opposition believes that Modi’s decision to launch an airstrike inside Pakistan after a terrorist attack in Kashmir changed the course of the elections. That reasoning is too simplistic. There is no doubt that the strike reinforced Modi’s reputation as a “mazboot” politician, or man of strength. But it was hardly the tipping point. In fact, Pakistani Prime Minister Imran Khan and Modi have already exchanged public notes on social media about working together for peace in the region.
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