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Blindspot to backlash: India’s Modi and party misread the mood


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Blindspot to backlash: India’s Modi and party misread the moodHuge protests in India against a citizenship law seen by many as anti-Muslim have wrong-footed Prime Minister Narendra Modi and sent his Hindu nationalist party scrambling to douse the anger. In Modi's biggest challenge since taking office in 2014, hundreds of thousands have rallied against the law offering citizenship to immigrants from non-Muslim minorities who have fled Afghanistan, Bangladesh and Pakistan. Ruling Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) leaders were taken aback by the backlash, some party members told Reuters.


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