Hindu Nationalism Just Won Another Crushing Election Victory In India
But the BJP’s nomination of a terror-accused candidate — Pragya Singh Thakur — revealed the party’s strategy for consolidating voters based on right-wing Hindu nationalism.
Even before his first election as prime minister in 2014, when he was not the towering figure in India’s national imagination that he is now, Modi was an expert at creating highly charged, emotive political campaigns. This so-called “” was witnessed when Modi was Chief Minister of Gujarat, a state in West India, where he based his campaign on creating “Gujarati asmita,” or state pride.
The BJP’s main political rival, the Indian National Congress, which has been India’s main governing party since independence, has won only 94 seats across the country so far.Nishita Jha is a global women's rights reporter for BuzzFeed News and is based in India.
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