Modi has also succeeded in winning over rural Indians, both for his party and himself, Pew said.
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Followers are likely unsurprised by Modi’s meeting with Zuckerberg after the prime minister unveiled his Digital India initiative in early July.
Narendra Modi, clad in Naga tribal costume, poses with a tribal Naga spear and a traditional machete (dao) during the inauguration of the Hornbill Festival at Kisama in the outskirts of Kohima, the capital city of Nagaland. The Prime Minister remarked that the city of Varanasi, which had for long, given the light of knowledge (Gyaan Prakash) to India was now symbolically giving the light of energy (Urja Prakash) to India, as IPDS was being launched nationwide today from Varanasi.
Indians are overwhelmingly more positive about their country than they were two years ago.
“Overall Modi suffers from a lack of recognition”. The reaction to Modi’s handling of relations with the United States is particularly positive: 66 percent of respondents approve while just 13 percent disapprove.
Sharma said the Narendra Modi government had created a mirage of sorts to impress people while the situation on the ground was totally different.
Modi’s official Twitter account, which has close to 15 million followers, displayed colourful balloons floating across the page to mark his birthday. Modi Unfurling His Might With His Oratory Skills At One Of The Rallies19.
The year was 2013, and Gujarat’s dairy farmers had been suffering for quite some time due to starvation , high prices, and the corporatism that Modi embraced as part of his “Gujarat model”.
Modi, who met captains of India Inc last week and asked them to step up investments, will attempt to sell his government’s dedicated manufacturing initiative to foreign companies during his U.S. trip next week. I once believed that Modi represented a government that would finally place economics over egos, and progress over piety.
Party General Secretary Shakeel Ahmed too made a scathing attack on Modi, asking him to come out of “selective amnesia”.
“I am confident that we will, as we have so often done, rise to our responsibilities”.
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“Modi’s popularity is the biggest strength of BJP”, he said. “Only if Hindus develop will the nation develop”. Or have we in our blind patriotism elected a Frankenstein’s monster? Among them was a visit to “Shauryanjali”, a commemorative exhibition on the Golden Jubilee of India’s triumph over Pakistan in the 1965 war at the Rajpath lawns here.
