Narendra Modi is now the second longest consecutive serving Prime Minister of India, going past on July 25 Indira Gandhi’s consecutive stint. In the state and centre, Modi has headed a Government for 24 years, which is a record among all prime ministers.

He is also the first PM born after 1947, and the longest serving one from a non-Hindi state.

If one considers just his staying power and electability, the list is long.

The reason why we are living through such an intensely polarised Bharat is because for the first time, the mighty Nehruvian establishment of nearly 70 years collided with a worldview so powerful that the storm ravaged the palace of illusions.

Communism was always there as a challenger to Congressism, but in pockets, and nationally a weak one. Also, Nehruvian socialism in many ways subsumed Leftist ideals, just as Modi’s welfare outreach blunts the........

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