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☆ The New Kingmakers Who Could Make or Break Modi’s Government
▼ + stars: | 2024-06-05 | by ( Victoria Kim | Pragati K.B. | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

After his first two national election victories, Prime Minister Narendra Modi of India easily set his own terms, with his Bharatiya Janata Party winning clear majorities. It was still a victory, but one that left him dependent on a host of coalition partners — particularly on politicians from two regional parties who could make or break Mr. Modi’s ability to form a government. Of the more than a dozen parties that make up the B.J.P.’s coalition, known as the National Democratic Alliance, most won just one or two seats, leaving the party in a difficult predicament. said it had reached an agreement to form a coalition government that includes those two regional parties — the Telugu Desam Party and Janata Dal-United. They will be the biggest junior partners, but they are also avowedly secular and removed from Mr. Modi’s Hindu-nationalist ideology.

Persons: Narendra Modi, — Organizations: Bharatiya Janata Party, National Democratic Alliance, Telugu Desam Party, Janata Dal - United Locations: India, Modi’s

☆ Indians Are Finally Standing Up to Modi’s Politics of Hate - The New York Times
▼ + stars: | 2024-06-05 | by ( Anjali Mody | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +2 min

For weeks, the announcement of India’s election results loomed as a moment of dread for millions of people who cherish the country’s commitment to secular democracy. Mr. Modi has towered over India since first sweeping to power in 2014. His government, which also included 50 parliamentarians from minor coalition partners, ran roughshod over the opposition. The opposition I.N.D.I.A. alliance — formed by the once-dominant Indian National Congress and more than two dozen mostly regional parties — nearly equaled the B.J.P.

Persons: Narendra Modi —, Modi, God, — Organizations: Bharatiya Janata Party, Indian National Congress Locations: India

When everything became about Prime Minister Narendra Modi of India, his party and its century-old Hindu-nationalist network were propelled to unimagined heights. On the back of his singular charisma and political skill, a onetime-fringe religious ideology was pulled to the center of Indian life. Landslide election victories remade India’s politics, once dominated by diverse coalitions representing a nation that had shaped its independence on secular principles. On Tuesday, Mr. Modi and his Bharatiya Janata Party, or B.J.P., fell back to earth. Mr. Modi will remain in office for a third term, but only with the help of a contentious coalition of parties, some of which are opposed to his core beliefs and want power of their own.

Persons: Narendra Modi, Modi Organizations: India, Bharatiya Janata Party Locations: inundating

☆ Early Election Results Suggest Sharp Turnaround for Indian National Congress
▼ + stars: | 2024-06-04 | by ( Sameer Yasir | More About Sameer Yasir | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

In India’s last general election, in 2019, Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s party won 303 of 543 parliamentary seats — nearly six times as many as the main opposition party, the Indian National Congress. But early election results on Tuesday indicated a far stronger showing than expected for the Congress. “Whatever the final results, one thing is clear — it is a moral victory for Congress and our leader Rahul Gandhi, and defeat for B.J.P.,” said Robin Michael, a political worker, referring to Mr. Modi’s Bharatiya Janata Party. While there was no indication that Congress and the opposition coalition it leads would scrape together a majority to unseat Mr. Modi, party workers said that they had dented Mr. Modi’s aura of invincibility. They praised Mr. Gandhi, the Congress party’s most prominent figure and a great-grandson of Jawaharlal Nehru, India’s first post-independence prime minister.

Persons: Narendra Modi’s, jubilation, Rahul Gandhi, ”, Robin Michael, Modi’s, Mr, Modi, Gandhi, Jawaharlal Nehru, India’s Organizations: Indian National Congress, Congress, Modi’s Bharatiya Janata Party Locations: New Delhi

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Persons: Narendra Modi, Modi’s Organizations: N.D.A, INDIA Modi’s, Modi’s Bharatiya Janata Party, Party Coalition Locations: India, N.D.A

☆ As Voting Ends in India, Modi Awaits a Verdict on His 10 Years in Power
▼ + stars: | 2024-06-01 | by ( Mujib Mashal | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

Exit polls released after the last round of voting suggested a comfortable return for his Hindu-nationalist Bharatiya Janata Party, or B.J.P. A newly united opposition has put up a fight, rallying against Mr. Modi’s divisive politics and management of India’s deeply unequal economic growth. But the exit polls indicated it was struggling to significantly cut into the sizable majority in the 543-seat Parliament held by Mr. Modi’s party. In a message of thanks after the voting closed, Mr. Modi expressed confidence that “the people of India have voted in record numbers to re-elect” his government. But Mallikarjun Kharge, the president of the largest opposition party, the Indian National Congress, played down the exit polls as “government surveys” and said the official results will show that his alliance was ahead.

Persons: Narendra Modi’s, Mr, Modi, ”, Mallikarjun Kharge Organizations: Bharatiya Janata Party, Indian National Congress Locations: India’s, India

☆ Leaflet by Leaflet, a Few Aging Activists Fight India’s Tide of Bigotry
▼ + stars: | 2024-05-28 | by ( Sameer Yasir | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: 1 min

One recent morning, Roop Rekha Verma, an 80-year-old peace activist and former university leader, walked through a north Indian neighborhood prone to sectarian strife and parked herself near a tea shop. From her sling bag, she pulled out a bundle of pamphlets bearing messages of religious tolerance and mutual coexistence and began handing them to passers-by. Don’t let anyone divide you,” one read in Hindi. Spreading those simple words is an act of bravery in today’s India. Ms. Verma and others like her are waging a lonely battle against a tide of hatred and bigotry increasingly normalized by India’s ruling Bharatiya Janata Party, or B.J.P.

Persons: Roop Rekha Verma, Verma, India’s Organizations: Bharatiya Janata Party Locations: today’s India

☆ Free Food? Modi Makes Sure Every Indian Knows Whom to Thank for It.
▼ + stars: | 2024-05-26 | by ( Suhasini Raj | Alex Travelli | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: 1 min

Durga Prasad, an 80-year-old farmer, was resting under the shade of a tree in front of his home when the party workers came. An app on their smartphones could tell them in an instant who Mr. Prasad was, whom he might vote for — and why he should be grateful to India’s prime minister, Narendra Modi. “You get installments of 2,000 rupees, right?” asked a local official from Mr. Modi’s Bharatiya Janata Party, or B.J.P. Mr. Prasad concurred. He receives $72 a year through a farmers’ welfare program started and branded by Mr. Modi.

Persons: Durga Prasad, Prasad, Narendra Modi, “, ”, Modi’s, Modi Organizations: Modi’s Bharatiya Janata Party, Mr

☆ Why Did Modi Call India’s Muslims ‘Infiltrators’? Because He Could.
▼ + stars: | 2024-04-23 | by ( Mujib Mashal | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

Prime Minister Narendra Modi, his power at home secured and his Hindu-first vision deeply entrenched, has set his sights in recent years on a role as a global statesman, riding India’s economic and diplomatic rise. In doing so, he has distanced himself from his party’s staple work of polarizing India’s diverse population along religious lines for its own electoral gain. His silence provided tacit backing as vigilante groups continued to target non-Hindu minority groups and as members of his party routinely used hateful and racist language, even in Parliament, against the largest of those groups, India’s 200 million Muslims. But the brazenness made clear that Mr. Modi sees few checks on his enormous power. Abroad, partners increasingly turn a blind eye to what Mr. Modi is doing in India as they embrace the country as a democratic counterweight to China.

Persons: Narendra Modi, ”, —, Modi, Mr Organizations: Bharatiya Janata Party Locations: India, China

☆ Modi Calls Muslims ‘Infiltrators’ Who Would Take India’s Wealth
▼ + stars: | 2024-04-22 | by ( Alex Travelli | Suhasini Raj | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Sunday called Muslims “infiltrators” who would take India’s wealth if his opponents gained power — unusually direct and divisive language from a leader who normally lets others do the dirtiest work of polarizing Hindus against Muslims. Mr. Modi, addressing voters in the state of Rajasthan, referred to a remark once made by Manmohan Singh, his predecessor from the opposition Indian National Congress Party. Mr. Singh, Mr. Modi claimed, had “said that Muslims have the first right to the wealth of the nation. This means they will distribute this wealth to those who have more children, to infiltrators.”Mr. Modi aimed his emotional appeal at women, addressing “my mothers and sisters” to say that his Congress opponents would take their gold and give it to Muslims. Implications like these — that Muslims have too many babies, that they are coming for Hindus’ wives and daughters, that their nationality as Indian is itself in doubt — are often made by representatives of Mr. Modi’s Bharatiya Janata Party, or B.J.P.

Persons: Narendra Modi, ”, Modi, Manmohan Singh, Singh, Mr, “, —, Modi’s Organizations: Sunday, Indian National Congress Party, Modi’s Bharatiya Janata Party Locations: Rajasthan

☆ Time Is Running Out for Rahul Gandhi’s Vision for India
▼ + stars: | 2024-04-20 | by ( Samanth Subramanian | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +2 min

The crush of people at the rally was suffocating, although in India a crowd is no index of popularity. At 53, with a well-salted beard and serious eyes, he’s too old to be called Congress’s “scion,” but he still wears the sheen of dynasty. Then, on the heels of several corruption scandals, the mighty party — 140 years old next year — came unstuck. One of Modi’s successes has been not just to trounce the Congress Party but also to persuade people that the party has weakened India and emasculated its Hindus. (Amnesty itself halted its work in India in 2020, in the midst of what it later called an “incessant witch hunt” by the government.)

Persons: —, Gandhi, Jawaharlal Nehru, Indira, Rajiv, Sonia, Modi, ” Organizations: Congress, Party, Amnesty, World Press Locations: India, Pakistan, Bangladesh, Afghanistan, Russia

☆ Why India’s Opposition Can’t Get It Together
▼ + stars: | 2024-04-19 | by ( Sameer Yasir | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

That Mr. Modi has established such dominance in Parliament despite falling well short of majority popular support is a reflection of a dysfunctional and fractured political opposition. The main opposition party, the Indian National Congress, governed for decades after the country’s independence in 1947, guided by the Nehru-Gandhi dynasty. Here’s why India’s political opposition is in such dire straits. The Congress, long positioned at India’s political center, has struggled to find a direction and offer an ideological alternative to the Hindu nationalist B.J.P. That has held back the broader opposition’s fight against Mr. Modi.

Persons: Narendra Modi, Mr, Modi, Nehru Organizations: Bharatiya Janata Party, Indian National Congress

The ruling party of Prime Minister Narendra Modi has tightened its grip over India’s populous northern belt, results of state elections showed Sunday, expanding its dominance of a key region ahead of general elections in which Mr. Modi is seeking a third term. The party, which ruled for a majority of India’s history as a republic, has struggled to claw its way back after Mr. Modi rose to national power in 2014. The Congress party was hoping to use the state elections to build momentum for national elections next spring, but instead lost all three states in which it was pitted against Mr. Modi’s Bharatiya Janata Party, or B.J.P. The only victory for Congress came against a smaller regional party in Telangana, in India’s south, where Mr. Modi’s Hindu nationalist politics has faced resistance. The results of elections in a smaller fifth state, Mizoram, are expected on Monday, but the race there is between two smaller regional parties.

Persons: Narendra Modi, Modi, Modi’s Organizations: Indian National Congress, Mr, Modi’s Bharatiya Janata Party, Congress Locations: Madhya Pradesh, Chhattisgarh, Rajasthan, Telangana, India’s, Mizoram

☆ Modi’s Hindu-Supremacist Politics Are Pushing India to the Brink - The New York Times
▼ + stars: | 2023-08-09 | by ( Debasish Roy Chowdhury | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +2 min

Under Mr. Modi’s government, the state monopoly on violence is being surrendered to extremists and vigilantes. The targeting of minorities — particularly Muslims — by right-wing Hindu extremists is now a way of life in many states. A similar drive in neighboring Assam state targeting Muslims has already reportedly disenfranchised nearly two million people. Those were Meitei men in the horrific 26-second video, sexually assaulting two Kuki women. Many similar attacks on Kuki women have been reported.

Persons: stokes, Modi Locations: India, Manipur, Myanmar, Assam

“The fact that there are these weapons which are at large — massive number of sophisticated weapons — is a very huge risk to our national security,” Mr. Gogoi said in an interview. Mr. Modi’s silence, analysts said, reflects how crucial his brand is for the calculations of his governing party, known as the B.J.P., around next year’s general elections. Amit Shah, Mr. Modi’s home minister, visited Manipur last month, and told Parliament last week that he was willing to have a discussion on behalf of the government. Since India’s founding as a republic seven decades ago, its northeast has been rife with insurgencies rooted in tribal and ethnic grievances. Successive national governments have prioritized connections through the northeast that could expand trade with neighboring Bangladesh, Myanmar and Southeast Asia more broadly.

Persons: Mr, Gogoi, Amit Shah, Modi’s, Modi Organizations: Party Locations: Manipur, Meiti, New Delhi, Bangladesh, Myanmar, Southeast Asia

☆ More Modi, Less Hindu Nationalism: Reading Tea Leaves in India Vote
▼ + stars: | 2023-05-10 | by ( Mujib Mashal | Hari Kumar | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: 1 min

With how often and how fiercely Narendra Modi injects himself into elections, you would think every race — down to the vote for municipal bodies in what will soon be the world’s most populous nation — is a referendum on his standing as the leader of India. On Wednesday, a state election in Karnataka, home to 65 million people, was being closely watched for what it might foretell about national elections early next year in which Mr. Modi will seek to extend his transformational prime ministership into a second decade. In Karnataka, his Bharatiya Janata Party, or B.J.P., was trying to hold on to the only state it governs in the country’s more prosperous south, where its Hindu nationalist politics have found much slower reception.

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