Indian general election 2014: What Narendra Modi means for India

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Sadanand Dhume
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“Indian
general election 2014:
What Narendra Modi means for India”
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Summary: Starting April 7, India’s general election — the world’s largest
democratic exercise — is set to be the most momentous in decades. After 10
years of rule by the Indian National Congress, polls indicate that the opposition
Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) is likely to win a plurality of seats in parliament
and lead the next government in New Delhi. The BJP’s controversial but
business-friendly candidate Narendra Modi is likely to be prime minister. What
would Modi’s election mean for India, and the world?
Sadanand Dhume is a Resident Fellow at the American Enterprise Institute,
where he writes on South Asian political economy, foreign policy, business, and
society, with a focus on India and Pakistan. Mr. Dhume has served as India
bureau chief of the Far Eastern Economic Review and as Indonesia
correspondent of FEER and the Wall Street Journal – Asia, and is currently a
South Asia columnist for the Wall Street Journal. Previously, he was Bernard
Schwartz Fellow at the Asia Society in Washington, D.C. He has written articles
and op-eds for Foreign Policy, Forbes, Commentary, YaleGlobal, the
Washington Post, and other publications. His television appearances include
CNN, PBS, BBC World, Al Jazeera International, CNBC Asia and ABC
Television. His political travelogue about the rise of radical Islam in Indonesia,
My Friend the Fanatic: Travels with a Radical Islamist, has been published in
four countries. He has twice been selected by Foreign Policy magazine as one of
the world's top 100 Twitterati. Follow him on Twitter @dhume.