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Narendra Modi's secret sauce: Why new India is gung-ho about him

The Mandal-Mandir movements and the economic liberalisation of the 1990s have collectively transformed and created a new India voter. This is what Modi has understood best. Hence his success.

Modi's toilet comment will win against both secularists, communalists

He knows his PM aspirations need support outside hardcore Hindutva, including among aspirational youth, women who suffer the shame of not having toilets.