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The public perception of Prime Minister Narendra Modi seems to be changing. The farmers’ agitation against three proposed laws, Chinese incursions in Ladakh and a worsening Covid-19 pandemic have only added to a long term malaise of rising unemployment, declining economic growth and alienated youth. And yet the government appears unperturbed.
Perhaps the last general election has shown that a public narrative of economic despair will not necessarily translate into anti-incumbency. No general election is due for a long time and the BJP’s election planners have almost always managed to produce a rabbit (or even a peacock) out of the
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