The BJP, which is in power in India in the state elections, has suffered a setback
Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi suffered a major political setback on Sunday when his Bharatiya Janata party failed to seize power in the West Bengal state, accused of helping to spark a second strong wave of Covid-19 cases in the country as a result of an aggressive election campaign.
The setbacks The public outrage in the Modi government is growing manipulation in the case of the pandemic, about 400,000 new infections in India were recorded on the second day in a row.
“It’s a blow to the BJP,” said Gilles Verniers, a political scientist at Ashoka University. “The message is that the Modi brand is disappearing on its own and that it is not enough to compensate for the proper organization and lack of it. governance“.