Changing with 'Times'..! A journey from 'Divider in Chief' to 'Modi united India like no PM in decades'

New Delhi, May 29: “No Prime Minister has united India in decades the way he has done”, claims the controversial Times Magazine switching weeks after it featured NaMo on the cover of its international edition with a disputable headline calling him a 'Divider-in-Chief'

 

 

This is after BJP secured a landslide victory in the country's general elections, winning 303 seats in the 542-member Lok Sabha. “Despite the strong and often unfair criticisms levelled at Modi's policies both throughout his first term and this marathon election, no Prime Minister has united the Indian electorate as much in close to five decades," writes Manoj Ladwa, founder and chief executive of the India Inc Group, a London-based media organisation.

 

Prior to the election mandate, the magazine had flagrantly called the Prime Minister as India’s Divider in Chief, covering the international sector. The said article was written by the Aatish Taseer, son of Indian journalist Tavleen Singh and late Pakistani politician and businessman Salmaan Taseer

  

Scrapping the prior posts, Ladwa in his article writes that Modi still has work to do. “Having plugged some horrendous holes in India's notoriously inefficient and corrupt bureaucracy in his first term, he will now need to focus much more ruthlessly on reforming those institutions and make them fit for the coming decades. This will require him to remain the pragmatic politician he is, and continue to shun the temptations of populism as he sets out his stall for a second term”, he said.

 

"Modi may have been criticised for remaining silent during incidents of social unrest. But his work has been given the thumbs up at the ballot box by the Indian voters for directly addressing the root causes of some of India's divisions. For them, the Modi dream of a New India remains very much intact,” he added.

 

The magazine in another article named ‘India's Economy Needs Tougher Reform. How Will Modi Use His Election Mandate?' published on the TIME website, lauds NaMo for having gained reputation among US industry as someone with a reformist mindset. “We may well see the new Modi government storm into its new term with a bang, tackling market access problems and liberalizing the economy further to boost economic growth”, it voiced.