The Guardian view on Narendra Modi´s landslide: bad for India´s soul | Editorial
(The Guardian India)

The world does not need another national populist leader who pursues a pro-business agenda while trading in fake news and treating minorities as second-class citizensThe biggest election in history has just been won by one man: Narendra Modi. Mr Modi has become the first Indian prime minister since 1971 to secure a single-party majority twice in a row. In 2014 the Bharatiya Janata party won an absolute majority in the lower house of parliament for the first time in its history after the Congress party´s appeal vanished in a haze of corruption. Despite a spluttering economy five years later, Mr Modi seems certain to have expanded his parliamentary majority. This is bad news for India and the world.The BJP is the political wing of Hindu nationalism, a movement that is changing India for the worse. Little wonder, as it stands for the flagrant social dominance of the upper castes of Hindu society, pro-corporate economic growth, cultural conservatism, intensified misogyny, and a firm grip on the instruments of state power. The landslide win for Mr Modi will see India´s soul lost to a dark politics - one that views almost all 195 million Indian Muslims as second-class citizens. Continue reading...