India’s Prime Minister Narendra Modi is on course to strengthen his governing alliance’s majority in the lower house of the national parliament. His own party, the Hindu nationalist BJP, may have even won an outright majority itself when results are declared.
Throughout his 2016 campaign and now presidency, Trump, who relishes his celebrity, has put his name and face front and center, creating a cult of personality among his devoted, merch-clad supporters. “He started off with this reputation that he transformed Gujarat and that he gets things done,” Gareth Price, a senior research fellow on the Asia-Pacific program at Chatham House, the international affairs think tank, told Newsweek.
Undocumented Migrants: Invaders and InfiltratorsThere are echoes of Modi in Trump’s approach to undocumented migrants. “Many of those people are still there in India, and it’s incredibly politically contentious. What they’re doing now is trying to round up people and send them back, but they’re also making a distinction between Hindus and Muslims,” Adeney told Newsweek. “They’re seen as anti-national, they’re seen as infiltrators, they’re seen as a security threat.”
“He and the BJP are generally challenging the dominant narrative that India’s had over 70 years of independence that it is this secular, tolerant democracy where everybody has a place regardless of your religion, regardless of your language,” Adeney told Newsweek. “It played extremely well in the campaign, even though it looks like they didn’t—quite wisely—hit anything on the Pakistan side of the border. It was actually quite clever. But in India, the finer points of this are lost,” Adeney said.
“The messages are very clearly constructed for the mass of BJP support,” Price said. “He very much taps in to that. Things are exaggerated, there’s hyperbole, and whatever, but questioning it is pointless or even anti-national because the message is for the urban middle class who want India to be strong.”
In India, the world’s largest democracy, Modi critics see a similar erosion of democratic norms. Violence against Hindu nationalism’s critics or minority groups, such as Muslims and those of the lowest caste, the Dalits, is seen to be both rising and tolerated.
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