India’s Modi Will (Likely) Get the Most Votes in Human History. Why?
Article/Op-Ed in In the Room with Peter Bergen
May 28, 2024
In Episode 56 of his podcast "In the Room with Peter Bergen," New America Vice President and ASU Professor of Practice Peter Bergen looks at India's ongoing elections, why Modi has such appeal to the Indian electorate, and why his appeal has stoked concern in India and beyond.
Prime Minister Narendra Modi of India is the most popular leader in the world — and he’s poised to win reelection to a third term. With his embrace of religious nationalism, is India’s secular democracy in peril? Or is Modi just giving the country’s 1.1 billion Hindus what they want?
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