A man of some of the people

December 14, 2013 12:21

On December 8th the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), India's main opposition party, handsomely won state elections in Madhya Pradesh and Rajasthan, with a combined population of well over 100m.

It also won, a bit more narrowly, in Chhattisgarh, and it got the largest share of the vote in Delhi Narendra Modi, chief minister of Gujarat and the party's national leader, claims much of the credit.

He is a forceful campaigner, hugely popular with his party's Hindu-nationalist core and increasingly accepted beyond it. His chances of becoming India's prime minister in next year's general elections, which must be held by May, were already good before the weekend. Now they look better than ever.

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