Unprecedented numbers of international interactions will present additional prospects. On June 22, Modi will make his first-ever State visit to Washington, D.C. He’ll be in Paris on July 14 to meet with President Emmanuel Macron and take in the Bastille Day Parade.
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Modi will host SCO leaders in India around the end of July, including the presidents of China, Iran, and other Central Asian nations as well as Russia and China. He will get to know Vladimir Putin, Xi Jinping, Lula da Silva of Brazil, and Cyril Ramaphosa of South Africa at the BRICS Summit in August.
Finally, on September 9u201310, he will host the G20 Summit in Delhi, where, if rumours are to be believed, he might be able to get Putin and Biden to shake hands if they both show up.
The BBC documentary about the violence in Gujarat in 2002 significantly damaged Modi’s reputation abroad. The Karnataka poll serves as a signal that his influence over Indian voters may be fading. Those who assert that this is a South Indian phenomena should keep in mind that, as of 2019, the BJP has lost Himachal Pradesh and was unable to seize control of the opposition in Punjab, West Bengal, Jharkhand, or Delhi.
The BJP’s majority administrations in Haryana and Maharashtra were overthrown by popular vote, and these states are now ruled by shaky coalitions. The Supreme Court has chastised the splitting of the Shiv Sena in Maharashtra to form a ragtag coalition. Modi is no longer the symbol of a successful election.
On the other hand, it is becoming more and more obvious that the grandiose gatherings involving the Indian diaspora overseas are planned much like election rallies in India, where participants are bribed and bussed in. In actuality, a chartered ‘Modi Airways’ flight from Melbourne to Sydney was planned.
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The Friends of India Australia and Indian-Australia Diaspora Foundation, whose officers are allegedly connected to international Hindutva organisations, organised the protest in Sydney. Political officials in the host nation are frequently intimidated by such massive demonstrations, mistaking the enthusiasm of the diaspora with Modi’s support at home. The possibility of gaining the support of voters of Indian ancestry may also motivate candidates to praise Modi in unorthodox ways.
These massive events also obscure criticism, such as minority community protests in the diaspora or the BBC documentary screening in the Australian parliament during Modi’s visit.
Will Modi’s efforts to project a mythical persona both at home and abroad succeed in winning Nagpur’s support? The worry is that the RSS, which supported Modi as a replacement for L. K. Advani in 2014, may now be considering removing him in favour of a more extreme Hindutva figure (like Yogi Adityanath) or a more moderate one (like Nitin Gadkari). Narendra Modi, the prime minister, would not want the RSS to even consider going in that route.
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