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August 10, 2017

India's 2019 Elections: How will BJP and Narendra Modi deploy their social capital? | Anil Padmanabhan

How will BJP and Narendra Modi deploy their social capital?

While PM Narendra Modi is pushing the envelope on the policy front, there is a clear indication that the bulk of the social capital is being deployed to win the 2019 Elections
 
 
Over the weekend M. Venkaiah Naidu was elected as the country’s next vice-president; for the first time a representative of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) will be in charge of the upper house of Parliament—as the VP sits in the chair. Together with its electoral gains over the last three years both nationally and at the state level, BJP, inspired by Narendra Modi, has formally taken over the pole position in Indian politics from the Congress.  [. . .]