Not just growth and nationalism: India's Modi campaigns on foreign policy

India's Prime Minister Narendra Modi speaks with Foreign Minister S. Jaishankar at the G20 Leaders' Summit, in Nusa Dua, Bali, Indonesia, in November 2022. - Reuters

NEW DELHI: In a campaign video clip, India's ruling party credits Prime Minister Narendra Modi for halting the Russia-Ukraine war two years ago so the government could rescue and repatriate nearly 20,000 stranded Indian students.

In the video, a young woman rushes to her middle-aged parents waiting outside an airport building, hugs them and says between sobs, "I had told you, no matter what the situation, Modi ji will bring us home. He stopped the war, Papa, and got us out.”