If Not Modi then Who?
The Indian Parliamentary election for the next five years is on. The present Indian prime minister Narendra Modi is battling hard for his reelection. All opposition parties are united against his government to combat the kind of polarization that Modi and Shah (BJP national president) are spreading in India with the support of their ideological backers RSS (Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh). The main opposition party Congress is resurgent, winning three major Hindi heartland states in recent state elections, after touching its nadir in 2014 parliamentary election. Narendra Modi has to battle a hard reelection bid because of dismal performance of his government in last five years on all the fronts, especially on the economic front. His immature half baked policies like demonetization and GST have devastated the economy. Unemployment is highest in last 45 years. Just after demonetization 5 million people lost their jobs. The informal sector, which is the backbone of the In...