Modi’s Top Priorities With Two Years to Go Until Election Day
- Populist policies to dominate for remainder of Modi’s term
- India’s premier eyes a third term in 2024 national polls
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Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s repeal of controversial farm laws this week shows that hard-to-sell economic reforms will likely take a back seat as he enters the second half of his five-year term and prepares for the next election in 2024.
With a string of state polls next year, the government appears set to implement populist policies as Modi looks to secure a third term, which would make him India’s’s longest-serving head of government after Jawaharlal Nehru and Indira Gandhi.