If not Modi, who?


Juggernaut: Can anyone challenge Modi’s immense charisma and huge following? — Photos: AFP

VEENA Kumari is a typical Narendra Modi voter: a 52-year-old housewife. With her farmer husband, she lives in a village close to Pratapgarh, a dusty town with an “unfinished” vibe just 170km from Lucknow, the capital of Uttar Pradesh.

“Unemployment is the main issue in the country, but this has improved. If we give Modi another five years, there will be no more unemployment.”

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