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

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Mr Modi’s once-fringe party, the Bharatiya Janata Party ( BJP), built its name by campaigning over the status of a mosque there from 1990. Narendra Damodardas Modi was born on 17 September 1950 to a Gujarati Hindu family of grocers in Vadnagar, Mehsana district, Bombay State (present-day Gujarat). To comply with the law prohibiting MPs from representing more than one constituency, he vacated the Vadodara seat. Modi submitted his resignation at the April 2002 BJP national executive meeting in Goa but it was not accepted. e] While his policies as chief minister, which were credited for encouraging economic growth, were praised, Modi's administration was criticised for failing to significantly improve health, poverty and education indices in the state.

On 27 February 2002, a train with several hundred passengers burned near Godhra, killing approximately 60 people. Applications were filed with the Prime Minister's Office (PMO) under the RTI Act seeking details of his arrest. Here you will find options to view and activate subscriptions, manage institutional settings and access options, access usage statistics, and more. Narendra Modi has received consistently high approval ratings during his premiership; [34] he is often ranked in popular opinion polls as the greatest prime minister in Indian history. The president of the state unit of the BJP expressed support for the bandh despite such actions being illegal at the time.The government also announced plans to build new sewage treatment plants, [333] and planned to construct 60 million toilets by 2019. The state government later stated 790 Muslims and 254 Hindus were killed during the riots; [117] independent sources put the death toll at over 2,000, [116] [115] [122] the vast majority of them Muslims. 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.

The Supreme Court of India did not hear constitutional challenges to the reorganisation or the Citizenship Amendment Act. Modi's policies of making Gujarat attractive for investment included the creation of Special Economic Zones in which labour laws were greatly weakened.A Supreme Court bench headed by Justice Arun Kumar Mishra dismissed the plea in January 2017 stating that the evidence provided was insufficient.

Modi's India provides a compelling account of how the nationalist populist leader has moved the country to a variant of ethnic democracy.He is a member of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) and of the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS), a right wing Hindu nationalist paramilitary volunteer organisation. Published since September 1843 to take part in “a severe contest between intelligence, which presses forward, and an unworthy, timid ignorance obstructing our progress.

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 Modi administration also made numerous changes in government-approved history textbooks that de-emphasised the role of Jawaharlal Nehru and glorified that of Modi while also portraying Indian society as harmonious, and without conflict and inequity. In part one, Jaffrelot investigates the evolutionary trajectory of Hindu nationalism, Modi's style of populism and the vulnerability of Hindus in the face of potently growing minorities.Modi's foreign policy, similarly to that of the preceding Congress government, focused on improving economic ties, security and regional relations. Modi has been criticised for maintaining silence over ceding about 2,000 sq km land to China since June 2020. Were Mr Modi and the BJP to win a third term—as seems almost certain—many worry that the Hindutva project would go further. Taking Cue from PM's 'Man vs Wild' Episode, Tourism Ministry Makes 'Wildlife' Theme for Incredible India".