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Indians have grown used to getting nice things from politicians

A set of balance scales with a maths book and pencil on one side and a bag of rice on the other. The book weighs more than the rice.

2024-07-04  775  中等

Welfare politics has been a longstanding feature of India, but Mr Modi and his Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) sought to perfect the art of loudly claiming credit for doling out benefits to ordinary people. For a period it was a reliable electoral tool, establishing the prime minister and his party as benefactors to the poor. The BJP’s rivals joined the welfarist bandwagon, hoping for a similar effect. Yet the recent election, in which the BJP lost its majority, shows that the tactic may have run its course.

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