THE CULT OF MODI.
(On the other hand, Modi was chief minister of a large state, Gujarat, for more than a decade before he became prime minister.) In part because so many of its leaders were jailed by Prime Minister Indira Gandhi during the Emergency, Modi's party, the BJP, had previously stoutly opposed cults of pers...
| Publicado en: | Foreign Policy no. 247; pp. 28 - 36 |
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