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Absorbing the implications of Modi’s bitter-sweet ‘victory’
The Indian PM’s shrill pitch did not sit well with voters who have sent him a signal about the kind of country they want to live in.
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Indian PM Narendra Modi flashing the victory sign as he arrives at the BJP headquarters in New Delhi on June 4, after the country’s general election results were announced.
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If politics is all about momentum, the force is no longer with India’s Prime Minister Narendra Modi and his Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP). That is the message that has emerged from India’s just concluded election
The implications are both troubling, and reassuring.
