It will be Exit, Mr Modi, the authoritarian prime minister of a single-party government and Enter, Mr Modi, the prime minister of a coalition of many parties with barely a 20-seat majority (of which TDP has 16 MPs and JDU 12 MPs). Mr Modi did not prepare for this role in his nearly 55 years of public life as a pracharak, general secretary of BJP, chief minister of Gujarat and prime minister of India. They value freedom, right to speech and expression, right to privacy, and right to protest. ‘Encounter’ and ‘bulldozer justice’ must be abandoned (a lesson especially to Mr Adityanath, chief minister of UP). Opposition must press agendaThe Opposition has an opportunity, after 10 years, to behave like a parliamentary opposition.

Source: Indian Express June 09, 2024 08:49 UTC