To-do list for Modi 3.0

A final view on who is OBC, agricultural reforms, and the abolition of anti-defection law and UPSC are among the key goals PM should pursue if he wins a third term

For the question asked most these days — “So who’s winning the general election and by how much?”— let us, for now, take Prime Minister Narendra Modi at his word. We can then offer him a 10-point wish list of what he could — and, in our view, should — do in his third term.

Not only does he think and repeatedly assert that 2024 is a done deal, he is also acting as if the coming election is a mere campaigning interregnum between his second and third terms, which he takes for granted.

This week’s Cabinet meeting, for example,