The Current Era: Evaluating Nine Years of Governance and Controversies

When there was a change of regime at the centre in 2014, his interest emerged to watch the Modi government that came with an absolute majority. His inquisitive mind started watching the government since the beginning to know how radically they mobilized the people to get 31 per cent and 37 per cent of total votes cast in 2014 and 2019. He kept on studying the promises Modi made and his failures in fulfilling them, yet able to continue in the 2019 general election. The magic wand was not the economic performance and his so-called welfare measures, but the oratory marvel of mobilizing people and dividing the people into religious and divisive lines of caste, creed, sex, and region. The author's first monumental work was on "Economic Consequences and Overall Implications of BJP Government during 2014-19." This work is an extension of nine years of his critical study of the style of Modi's functioning. Modi is very apt in promising but very renege in implementing. But once someone achieves power, he does not want to leave. Modi is also not unlike this. Although Modi had a very humble start, he has developed an authoritarian style in his functioning. The author observes that his charisma is waning and the coming general election would be most difficult for him to continue as PM, lest he improves his style of functioning.