{"id":75863,"date":"2024-06-05T07:00:25","date_gmt":"2024-06-05T06:00:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/?p=75863"},"modified":"2024-06-05T07:00:25","modified_gmt":"2024-06-05T06:00:25","slug":"modis-failure-provides-a-ray-of-hope","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/2024\/06\/05\/modis-failure-provides-a-ray-of-hope\/","title":{"rendered":"Modi\u2019s failure provides a ray of hope"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I would rarely look to Indian prime minister Narendra Modi as a source for hope. But this morning, maybe I should.<\/p>\n<p>It was widely expected that his ruling Bharatiya Janata party would win a landslide victory in the Indian general election, but it has not. It has fallen well short of a majority and will need a coalition to govern.<\/p>\n<p>Why is that hopeful? There are at least three good reasons.<\/p>\n<p>First, this is a major rejection of populist racism in India. Modi\u2019s government is profoundly, and deliberately, divisive on race issues. It is welcome that he has failed as a result.<\/p>\n<p>Second, this is good for democracy. It shows that the power of populists can be challenged.<\/p>\n<p>Third, it shows that forecasts of landslides can be inaccurate. We have to live in hope that this is also true in the UK.<\/p>\n<p>Modi will, unfortunately, stay in power. He has a readily available coalition partner who will guarantee that happens. But, his failure is welcome, nonetheless. If enough people reject populism it can be held at bay.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I would rarely look to Indian prime minister Narendra Modi as a source for hope. But this morning, maybe I should. It was widely expected<br \/><a class=\"moretag\" href=\"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/2024\/06\/05\/modis-failure-provides-a-ray-of-hope\/\"><em> Read the full article&#8230;<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[122,106],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-75863","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-election","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75863","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=75863"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75863\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":75864,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75863\/revisions\/75864"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=75863"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=75863"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=75863"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}