{"id":64455,"date":"2024-05-27T15:56:56","date_gmt":"2024-05-27T06:56:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/article\/2024\/may\/27\/india-elections-pm-narendra-modi-claims-he-has-been-chosen-by-god"},"modified":"2024-05-27T15:56:56","modified_gmt":"2024-05-27T06:56:56","slug":"india-elections-pm-narendra-modi-claims-he-has-been-chosen-by-god","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=64455","title":{"rendered":"India elections: PM Narendra Modi claims he has been chosen by God"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Indian leader tells interviewer God \u2018just keeps making me do things\u2019 but that he \u2018cannot dial him directly\u2019<\/p>\n<p>Indian prime minister Narendra Modi has said he believes he has been chosen by God, as the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/article\/2024\/may\/07\/can-modi-finally-win-over-the-southern-states-and-reshape-indias-electoral-map\">multi-stage Indian election<\/a> nears its completion.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI am convinced that \u2018<em>Parmatma\u2019 <\/em>(God) sent me for a purpose. Once the purpose is achieved, my work will be one done. This is why I have completely dedicated myself to God,\u201d he told NDTV news channel on Sunday.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/article\/2024\/may\/27\/india-elections-pm-narendra-modi-claims-he-has-been-chosen-by-god\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Indian leader tells interviewer God \u2018just keeps making me do things\u2019 but that he \u2018cannot dial him directly\u2019Indian prime minister Narendra Modi has said he believes he has been chosen by God, as the multi-stage Indian election nears its completion.\u201cI am&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":589,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[62,433,61,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-64455","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-india","category-narendra-modi","category-south-and-central-asia","category-world-news"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64455","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/589"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=64455"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64455\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":64456,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64455\/revisions\/64456"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=64455"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=64455"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=64455"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}