Writing that 73 year-old Indian dictator Narendra Modi was expected to frame his campaign leading the world’s largest “democracy” as a referendum on his ten years in power and “achievements like generous welfare programmes and spaceflights,” the BBC reports that the genocidal strongman’s reelection bid has instead “shifted gears” and is now running of the fundamentals of hardcore Hindu nationalism, as in portraying the country’s 172 million Muslims as “inflitrators” and “jihadists.”
“To be honest, I thought Mr Modi’s campaign would be much more about the rising India story, and about what they had done for the people,” said Delhi-based think tanker Rahul Verma, apparently surprised that a leader responsible for inciting a 2002 pogrom that killed as many as 2,000 Muslim Indians in Gujarat province would campaign on selecting the national cricket team’s lineup “on the basis of religion” and rage about Muslims being welfare freeloaders by having “many children.”
Modi’s Bharatiya Janata Party are widely expected to completely crush the opposition Indian National Congress and its coalition of regional parties in the ongoing weeks-long national elections.