While in this role, Modi met trade unionist and socialist activist George Fernandes and several other national political figures.

In November of that year, Modi was appointed BJP national secretary and transferred to New Delhi, where he assumed responsibility for party activities in Haryana and Himachal Pradesh.

In November 2016, advocate Prashant Bhushan had filed a plea in the Supreme Court of India asking for investigation of the alleged bribe payments made to some senior public servants including Modi. A Special Investigation Team appointed by the Supreme Court of India in 2012 found no evidence to initiate prosecution proceedings against him. The author illustrates that Hindu nationalism was initially embedded in numerous ‘allegedly apolitical movements’ that intended to reform society (p.

The Modi government enjoyed a positive relationship with the US during the presidencies of Barack Obama and his successor Donald Trump. Modi's campaign focused on defence and national security, especially after the Pulwama attack and the retaliatory Balakot airstrike, which was counted as an achievement of his administration. A second wave of the pandemic that began in March 2021 was significantly more devastating than the first; some parts of India experienced shortages of vaccines, hospital beds, oxygen cylinders and other medical supplies.During the campaign, Modi focused on corruption scandals under the previous Congress government, and played on his image as a politician who had created a high rate of GDP growth in Gujarat. The president of the state unit of the BJP expressed support for the bandh despite such actions being illegal at the time. Dhattiwala, Raheel (2019), Keeping the Peace: Spatial Differences in Hindu-Muslim Violence in Gujarat in 2002, Cambridge University Press, p.

Sources stating that RSS had a deep impact on the political hierarchy of the BJP, specially in the case of Narendra Modi. it is only a scholar of exceptional assurance and erudition who would attempt such an audaciously comprehensive, contemporary history written in real-time rather than with hindsight, and succeed simultaneously to inform, stir and provoke his readers. During its raids in 2013 and 2014, the CBI seized some diaries from two big Indian companies, Sahara Group and Aditya Birla Group. Modi Kaka Ka Gaon (Modi uncle's town), a 2017 Indian Hindi-language drama film by Tushar Amrish Goel, is the first biopic about Modi.The most comprehensive study of Modi’s India to date offers a bleak and unsparing view of the direction of the country. The healthcare budget for the following year rose by 19%; private insurance providers positively viewed the budget but public health experts criticised its emphasis on the role of private healthcare providers and said it represented a shift away from public health facilities. In 2018, he was the third-most-followed world leader on Twitter and the most-followed world leader on Facebook and Instagram.

The government's decision to move the bodies of the train victims from Godhra to Ahmedabad further inflamed the violence. The Bharatiya Mazdoor Sangh (Indian Workers Union), a constituent of the Sangh Parivar (Family of the RSS), stated the underlying motivation of labour reforms favoured corporations over labourers. While manufacturing has yet to take off, industry is starting to couple with global supply chains, from internet routers to electric two-wheelers.

In states such as Uttar Pradesh, where the BJP performed well, it drew exceptionally high support from upper-caste Hindus, and its Muslim vote increased to 10 percent. Nielsen, Kenneth Bo; Nilsen, Alf Gunvald (30 December 2021), "Hindu nationalist statecraft and Modi's authoritarian populism", Routledge Handbook of Autocratization in South Asia (1 ed. Supporters of economic liberalisation supported the initiative but critics said it would allow foreign corporations to capture a greater share of the Indian market. In 2018, the Telugu Desam Party split from the NDA over the campaign for special status for Andhra Pradesh.