Fearing NaMo

16 May, results day, is less than a fortnight away, and as India’s general election draws to a close, a drumbeat of alarmism is making itself heard. Its target: the frontrunner, the Bharatiya Janata Party’s (BJP) prime ministerial nominee Narendra Modi. Irrespective of their form or substance, here is the gist of these alarmist arguments that play on Modi’s alleged errors of omission and commission in Gujarat, particularly the 2002 riots in the state: an era of communal and political repression is in store if the BJP-led...

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