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Modi’s uncertain legacy
The writer is a retired air vice marshal and a former ambassador. He tweets @shazchy09 and can be contacted at [email protected]
When Narendra Modi was re-elected in 2019, he was already the un-seeming star of modern India. He carved Hindutva its fabled primacy and turned it into a bedrock of his social, political and electoral support. He reduced the veritable Congress Party India’s uncontested political face into political nothingness and buried their largely touted secularism under the exclusivity of Hindu religious-nationalism. He mimicked the right-wing nationalist leaders on the global scene and turned his iconic self into a cult with an iron-hold over the sentiment of most of the billion people. Riding high on an unparalleled victory of his 2019 mandate he won the right for the Hindus to build a temple over Babri Mosque, dissolved the special status of Kashmir through a constitutional amendment and changed laws challenging special provisions
‘Hostility’: What the book by Pakistan’s ambassador to India during the early Modi years reveals
‘Hostility’: What the book by Pakistan’s ambassador to India during the early Modi years reveals
An excerpt from ‘Hostility: A Diplomat’s Diary on Pakistan India Relations’, by Abdul Basit, Pakistan’s ambassador to India from 2014 to 2017. Author Abdul Basit.
Earlier on 16 March, I quietly went to see an indefatigable Kashmiri leader, Syed Ali Shah Geelani, at his modest Delhi flat. He was unwell. I also thought to personally invite him to the Pakistan Day reception to be held on 2 April. Needless to say, I was overwhelmed. Here was a man who was totally committed to Pakistan and the cause of Kashmir. This was my first meeting with him as High Commissioner. I had met him once earlier at the high commission when he came to see Foreign Secretary Salman Bashir in February 2010.
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