A striking finding from travels in poll-bound states in the past couple of years is Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s sustained popular appeal. People are for sure angry about the kind of things people do get angry about: Price rise (especially of petrol and diesel), farm distress, lack of employment, declining businesses, demonetisation, the goods and services tax, and so on. Much of it is also directed at the BJP, in the states and at the Centre.
It doesn’t seem to reflect on the prime minister, as if he were now an entity or a brand all by himself —
It doesn’t seem to reflect on the prime minister, as if he were now an entity or a brand all by himself —
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