Why Modi can make changes only in his second term

July 16, 2014 15:25

In the eyes of the world, the BJP is labelled in two distinct (but not always mutually exclusive) ways. Left-liberals choose to describe it as 'Hindu nationalist', a categorisation that carries an implied note of disapproval.

At the other ideological end, the preferred term is 'conservative', a description that locates the saffron party as a loose Indian equivalent of the Republicans in the United States, the British Conservatives and German Christian Democrats.

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