Narendra Modi, his political journey, governance record, and India transformation story.
Narendra Modi, his political journey, governance record, and India transformation story.
For decades, BJP's electoral strength was concentrated in a fairly specific set of northern and western Indian states. That changed substantially over the course of Modi's…
Winning three consecutive national elections took more than a popular leader. It took a campaign machine capable of operating at a scale and precision Indian politics…
The first 100 days of any new government tend to signal its real priorities, before the routine business of governing sets in. This article covers what…
Before Modi became BJP's national face, the party lost two consecutive general elections under different leadership. Understanding those defeats helps explain why the party was eventually…
A government's cabinet says a lot about how it plans to govern. Modi's first cabinet in 2014 was notably lean by Indian standards. His later ones,…
Modi's national political career formally began with a specific committee appointment, not a general election win. On June 9, 2013, the BJP named him chairman of…
Before Modi led the BJP, two other men did: L.K. Advani and Atal Bihari Vajpayee, the party's dominant leadership duo through the 1990s and into the…
Since 2014, Narendra Modi has represented one Lok Sabha seat continuously: Varanasi, one of Hinduism's holiest cities and among the oldest continuously inhabited cities in the…
After ten years of governing with an outright majority, Modi's government faced a different arithmetic in 2024. This article covers how that shift happened, what it…