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The strangest part of Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s speech on New Year’s Eve came about half-way in, when he piously invoked the name of certain past leaders he said would approve of his chosen policy path. The names he picked were of Jayaprakash Narayan, Ram Manohar Lohia, and K Kamaraj (and Lal Bahadur Shastri). About the only thing common to the first three men together was opposition to Indira Gandhi. So why was this strange? Because, above all, the leader who Mr Modi appears to be emulating is, of course, Indira Gandhi. And not the chastened post-1980 Indira Gandhi, either.
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