Modi Mutiny Risk Looms as Top BJP Woman Muted in India Vote
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Across much of India, leaders of Narendra Modi’s Bharatiya Janata Party chant his name and plaster his picture on billboards and campaign pamphlets. He featured less prominently in one corner of Madhya Pradesh.
At events in more than a dozen dusty villages of the landlocked state last month, Sushma Swaraj, 62, didn’t once mention the name of Modi. The party’s highest ranking female member and its leader in parliament’s lower house brushed off reporters’ questions about the BJP’s candidate for prime minister, telling them to just report what they see.