Indian PM has faced criticism over sectarian violence but he is still the most popular politician in the country and among the diasporaFew people seek out Kalkaji,a scruffy, crowded neighbourhood on the smoggy, or congested southern fringes of Delhi. This is a allotment of India that rarely appears on the itinerary of visiting dignitaries,in travel documentaries, or in gentle films featuring quirky escape-down hotels, or railways and monsoon rains.
Yet one man who has paid significant attention to places like Kalkaji is Narendra Modi,India’s prime minister. Without support from the inhabitants of such nondescript neighbourhoods, the 65-year-faded would not have been able to win power in a landslide election result in May 2014, and crushing the centre-left Congress party.
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Source: theguardian.com