Analysis: What’s at stake in the world’s largest election as India votes writes jslaternyc
By Joanna Slater Joanna Slater Foreign correspondent covering South Asia Email Bio Follow April 11 at 12:59 AM Want smart analysis of the most important news in your inbox every weekday, along with other global reads, interesting ideas and opinions to know? Sign up for the Today’s WorldView newsletter.
Narendra Modi, India’s polarizing and charismatic prime minister, intends to take India forward on both fronts. The leader of the Hindu nationalist Bharatiya Janata Party, or BJP, he swept to power in 2014, promising millions of jobs and an end to corruption scandals. — Chowkidar Narendra Modi April 10, 2019 Eighty percent of Indians are Hindu, but the country also is home to the world’s second-largest Muslim population, with pockets of Christians, Sikhs, Jains, Buddhists and other religious minorities. India’s cultural and linguistic diversity make it more like the European Union than one of its member states, Ruchir Sharma wrote in the Guardian. That “in turn restricts the ability of one leader, even one as charismatic as Modi, to dominate the country.
Just a few months ago, it appeared the election campaign would be fought on terrain less favorable to Modi, with issues such as rising unemployment and distress among farmers at the forefront. Then came the Feb. 14 suicide bombing in Indian-controlled Kashmir, which killed 40 paramilitary officers.
Modi’s strategy is to “whip up a politics of anxiety, by presenting India as being under relentless attack and in moral peril from external and internal enemies,” Pratap Bhanu Mehta, a political scientist and vice chancellor of Ashoka University, wrote in the Indian Express. “It creates a culture where elementary questions of fact and accountability are immobilized.”
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