Modi as god of all he surveys. Mumbai Mirror. Some rights reserved.As a side-effect of democracy, Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi is plunged in introspection and perhaps thinking of course correction. He has been forced to do this in less than a year of assuming power because of his party’s crushing defeat in Delhi’s provincial elections. The victorious AAP stopped the Modi juggernaut, causing a tremor in the federal government.
The Delhi debacle has left Modi wondering what the voters had voted him in for. His secular devotees are asking him to be the Modi that they voted in. They want him to damn the extremist fringe in his extended political family that incites religious hatred.
These secular-liberals do not form the core constituency of Modi’s Hindu nationalist party. They had turned to him in desperation and in disgust with the Manmohan Singh Government.
