The people of India may have just earned themselves a status as the world’s most decisive electorate. They did not simply dismiss their country’s ruling Nehru-Gandhi dynasty, they humiliated it. In electing the country’s historically Hindu nationalist party to a massive majority in parliament, they have launched India into a political revolution both hopeful and fearful.
We will begin to learn this week just what that balance of hope and fear might be, as the BJP (the Bharatiya Janata, or “Indian People’s” Party) and its prime minister-designate, Narendra Modi, name the cabinet that will start interpreting the political mandate they have been given, writes James Rupert on the Atlantic Council’s New Atlanticist blog. Read the full article here.
Image: As chief minister of Gujarat, a state as populous as Italy, Narendra Modi caught the attention of economists and investors with economic growth rates that reached 9 percent annually. What can he do for a country that has more people living in poverty than all of sub-Saharan Africa? (Photo: Wikimedia Commons/CC License)