9/22/2023 0 Comments Modi man vs wildHindu nationalists were sidelined by India’s founding prime minister, Jawaharlal Nehru, whose vision of India was of a secular nation at ease with its bewildering plurality. While still a child, he started attending daily meetings of the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh, said to be the world’s largest volunteer organisation, whose Hindu nationalist ideology envisions the country’s diverse Hindu population as a single nation with a sacred culture that should be given primacy in India. Modi was born in 1958 to a poor family in western India’s Gujarat state, where he developed a strong dislike for the ruling Congress party as a result of hanging around a political office near his father’s tea stall. Or so goes the story that has become the core of Narendra Modi’s extraordinary appeal. The boy who once sold tea at a railway station has become the most influential Indian leader in generations, winning a landslide in the 2019 elections.
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