Narendra Modi, the 14th prime minister of India, is a controversial figure who has been praised for his economic reforms and criticized for his Hindu nationalist policies.
Narendra Modi grew up in the Indian town of Vadnagar, the son of a street merchant. He entered politics as a youth and quickly rose through the ranks of Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh, a Hindu nationalist political party. Modi joined the mainstream Bharatiya Janata Party in 1987, eventually becomi...
New Delhi —India's 2024 election results show Prime Minister Narendra Modi set to win his third term in office, with the political alliance led by his Bhartiya Janata Party (BJP) on track to win a solid majority of the seats up for grabs in India's Parliament. Final numbers...
Narendra Modi: Man Who Changed Political Discourse in 2013 ; Whether Modi Becomes the Prime Minister or Not Next May, He Has Altered the Dynamics of Indian PoliticsUday MahurkarBhavna VijAurora
Is Prime Minister Narendra Modi Already Giving to Poor Much More Than What the Congress Promises? No political party has betrayed India for more than seven decades other than the Congress Party. It gave to the people of India many slogans and very little resources to implemen...
Modi, along with Mukherjee and Vice-President Hamid Ansari, unveiled a series of books on various aspects of life in President’s Estate. He later said, “Our political backgrounds are very different, yet when I came to Delhi in 2014 ...
Political analysts say Modi's victory was driven by social welfare programs that provided benefits from food to housing and by the strident Hindu nationalism that consolidated Hindu votes for his party. Hindus make up 80% of India's population. ...
Main opposition leader Rahul Gandhi is tenacious in his attack on Modi's economic policy. Image:Opposition leader Rahul Gandhi Setting out his own at a political rally in Delhi, he said: "We will waive farmer debts, give them a minimum support price for ...
Here are some of Modi's main rivals: How will voting in India work? Indian National Congress (INC) In opposition for a decade, the INC is India's oldest political party. Since India became independent in 1947, it has dominated the political landscape. ...
In political science jargon, the party had once been very “efficient” in converting votes into seats, with few “wasted” votes; this time, it was the opposite. Where the BJP increased its vote share, such as in the south and east, it won no more seats, and where it lost vote sha...