It is the final frontier for India’s most powerful leader in decades.
The news media, the national legislature, civil society, sometimes even the courts — all have largely been bent to his will.
But one critical group of holdouts remains: some of India’s richest states, the engine of its rapid growth.
The future shape of the world’s largest democracy — and its economic trajectory — may rest on the power struggle that has ensued.
Mr. Modi, who is well placed to win a third term in a national election that will begin on April 19, is wielding an increasingly heavy hand in what his opponents call an unfair effort to drive out the governments of the states his party does not control.
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Narendra Modi, Mr, Modi