Modi’s Bharatiya Janata Party-led coalition won the biggest parliamentary majority in three decades in a 2014 election and the poll by the US based research centre showed that his personal ratings remain high. Such high ratings are unusual for political leaders three years into office in south Asia, where governments are more often voted out than retained as people become frustrated with broken campaign promises. Modi defended the measure as an attack on the rich hiding their wealth from the taxman and said gains would come to the poor. This positive assessment of India’s direction has nearly doubled since 2014,” Pew said. But several states are voting for new assemblies over the next few months including Modi’s home state of Gujarat.

Source: The Express Tribune November 16, 2017 05:48 UTC