In India, intolerance undermines Modi's reforms

March 28, 2016 09:45

'Misinterpreting nationalism -- BJP's swing to jingoism does not augur well,' said a headline earlier this week in the Business Standard, one of India's leading newspapers. It reflected concern in India and abroad over what the paper called the governing BJP's "disturbing drift towards hyper-nationalism."

The only word slightly wrong there is drift, because there is a growing suspicion among observers that this is not some gradual meandering, but a determination to develop divisive politics, driven for vote-catching reasons by Bharatiya Janata Party leaders, notably Amit Shah, the partys hard-line president, Rajnath Singh, the governments rather stern looking home minister, aided occasionally by Smriti Irani, the voluble minister for human resource development.

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