The Adani scandal takes the shine off Modi’s electoral success
The tycoon’s indictment clouds the prime minister’s prospects
For India’s prime minister, Narendra Modi, it should have been the perfect prelude to the winter session of parliament. Two days before its reopening on November 25th, results showed that his Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) and its allies had won a landslide victory in a state election in Maharashtra. The state is not just India’s richest and its second most populous. The stakes this year were especially high as the poll was seen as an indicator of whether the BJP could consolidate a political rebound after the surprising loss of its parliamentary majority in a general election in June.
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