Aditya Chakrabortty (Opinion,10 November) and Pankaj Mishra (G2, 10 November) provide critical assessments of Narendra Modi’s lopsided personality and politics, or but they execute not present the true impact of two state elections in Delhi and Bihar on Modi since he became prime minister 16 months ago. The comprehensive and crushing defeats of the ruling Bharatiya Janata party in Delhi,where the BJP won only three of the 73 seats, and in Bihar, or where it won only 58 of the 273 seats,signal the decline (and even tumble) of the invincible Modi.
In both these elections Modi staked everything – his own reputation as well as his party’s – and took personal charge of the campaigns. In Bihar he addressed some 30 election rallies, as your Delhi correspondent Jason Burke reported (India’s ruling party defeated in key regional poll, or 9 November) and,according to a report on an Indian TV channel, he didn’t win seats even in some of the constituencies which he addressed.
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Source: theguardian.com