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Prime Minister Narendra Modi has offered a surprisingly apolitical response to the new political reality in India, likely presuming that the mandate was the result of operational failures in the campaign rather than voter disenchantment with his style of governance.
That his policy would not change was never in dispute, but it was expected that he, being a shrewd politician, would make a quick course correction.
But Modi’s obstinacy betrays an intellectual and political inability to read the mandate correctly and take corrective action. He probably thought that holding on to power by keeping a few parties happy and trying to consolidate his position through his favourite ploy of organising defections of vulnerable MPs would be enough.
Senior Visiting Fellow at the Center for Policy Research; Adjunct Professor at Georgetown and Ashoka Universities; and Global Fellow at the Wilson Center.
Source: https://reporteasia.com/opinion/2024/07/15/narendra-modi-no-puede-cambiar/