{"id":64971,"date":"2024-06-17T16:27:53","date_gmt":"2024-06-17T07:27:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/article\/2024\/jun\/17\/india-coalition-government-narendra-modi-analysis"},"modified":"2024-06-17T16:27:53","modified_gmt":"2024-06-17T07:27:53","slug":"consensus-or-division-how-modi-will-manage-indian-coalition-government","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=64971","title":{"rendered":"Consensus or division? How Modi will manage Indian coalition government"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Being beholden to partners could be a necessary restraint on Indian PM \u2013 or he could double down on oppressive policies<\/p>\n<p>As <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/narendra-modi\">Narendra Modi<\/a> traversed the country during recent months, campaigning for a third term in power, he repeated the same refrain. The past decade \u201cwas just a trailer\u201d, the prime minister told crowds, adding: \u201cThere is plenty more to come.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The expectation, among his Bharatiya Janata party (BJP) and most analysts and pollsters, was that India\u2019s election would easily return him to power with the same \u2013 if not stronger \u2013 supermajority that he has enjoyed over the past decade.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/article\/2024\/jun\/17\/india-coalition-government-narendra-modi-analysis\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Being beholden to partners could be a necessary restraint on Indian PM \u2013 or he could double down on oppressive policiesAs Narendra Modi traversed the country during recent months, campaigning for a third term in power, he repeated the same refrain. The&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":649,"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":[62,3091,433,61,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-64971","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-india","category-india-elections-2024","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\/64971","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\/649"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=64971"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64971\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":64972,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64971\/revisions\/64972"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=64971"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=64971"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=64971"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}