Modi's India: Hindu Nationalism and the Rise of Ethnic Democracy

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When Modi was eight years old, he was introduced to the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS) and began attending its local shakhas (training sessions). Modi contested the Lok Sabha election as a candidate for Varanasi; he won the seat by a margin of 479,505 votes, defeating Shalini Yadav of the Samajwadi Party (SP), who stood as a candidate for the SP- BSP alliance. Shortly before the war, Modi took part in a non-violent protest in New Delhi against the Indian government, for which he was arrested; because of this arrest, Inamdar decided to mentor Modi. Modi was the chief minister of Gujarat from 2001 to 2014 and is the Member of Parliament (MP) for Varanasi.

He curtailed the influence of Sangh Parivar organisations such as Bharatiya Kisan Sangh (BKS) and Vishva Hindu Parishad (VHP). In the later years of Modi's government, Gujarat's economic growth was frequently used as an argument to counter allegations of communalism. Over the past two decades, thanks to Narendra Modi, Hindu nationalism has been coupled with a form of national-populism that has ensured its success at the polls, first in Gujarat and then in India at large. The episode was recorded in Jim Corbett National Park, Uttarakhand, and was broadcast in India and 180 other countries. According to Martha Nussbaum, "There is by now a broad consensus that the Gujarat violence was a form of ethnic cleansing, that in many ways it was premeditated, and that it was carried out with the complicity of the state government and officers of the law".Modi took a brief break from politics in 1992 to establish a school in Ahmedabad, and due to friction with Shankersinh Vaghela, a BJP MP from Gujarat. More than 19,000 Indian nationals were evacuated, [403] [404] including some from neighbouring countries. Modi's administration brought renewed attention to India's "Look East Policy", which was instituted in 1991.

The RSS assigned him to the BJP in 1985 and he held several positions within the party hierarchy until 2001, rising to the rank of general secretary. The following year, Shankersinh Vaghela, a prominent BJP leader from Gujarat, defected to the Indian National Congress (Congress) after losing his parliamentary seat in the Lok Sabha election.

The most comprehensive study of Modi’s India to date offers a bleak and unsparing view of the direction of the country. The boom in cotton production and its semi-arid land use [180] led to Gujarat's agricultural sector growing at an average rate of 9.

These diaries contained references of alleged payments made to leaders belonging to as many as 18 political parties including BJP, Congress, JDU, BJD etc. In April 2014, shortly before the national election in which he gained power, Modi publicly affirmed he was married and that his spouse was Jashodaben. The airstrike failed, [14] [15] and the deaths of six Indian personnel to friendly fire was later revealed: but the action had nationalist appeal.In September 2022, Modi appeared to have developed a strong personal relationship with Russia's President Vladimir Putin. During this period, known as "the Emergency", many of her political opponents were jailed and opposition groups were banned. Despite opposition from the election commissioner, who said a number of voters were still displaced, Modi succeeded in advancing the election to December 2002. After the Indo-Pakistani War of 1971, Modi left his uncle's employment and became a full-time pracharak (campaigner) for the RSS, [74] working under Inamdar. In January 2015, the Modi government launched its New Health Policy (NHP), which did not increase the government's spending on healthcare but emphasised the role of private healthcare organisations.

Prime Minister Narendra Modi received the Global Goalkeeper Award at tonight's Goalkeepers Global Goals Awards. But in reality, he has worsened the situation for lower-income families, through several policies including the reduction of public welfare costs, indirect tax and demonetization. During the first few months after his appointment as PM, Modi visited a number of countries in support of his policy, and attended the BRICS, ASEAN and G20 summits. While campaigning for the 2012 Gujarat Legislative Assembly election, Modi made extensive use of holograms and other technologies, allowing him to reach a large number of people, [147] something he repeated in the 2014 general election. Despite the BJP's shift away from explicit Hindutva, Modi's campaigns in 2007 and 2012 Gujarat Legislative Assembly elections contained elements of Hindu nationalism.The Wire questioned the manner in which the Supreme Court buried the Sahara-Birla diaries' investigation. Sixty of the 112 tehsils which had depleted the water table in 2004 had regained their normal groundwater levels by 2010. State officials later prevented riot victims from leaving the refugee camps, which were often unable to meet the needs of those living there.