This election result is a positive mandate in favour of Narendra Modi | The Indian Express

This election result is a positive mandate in favour of Narendra Modi | The Indian Express

Written by Ram Madhav |Updated: May 24, 2019 8:31:35 am

The writer is national general secretary, BJP, and director, India Foundation.

This election result is a positive mandate in favour of Narendra Modi

“In the turmoil of battle, the great general maintains a psychological serenity like the needles of the compass in the storm-tossed ship”, writes Clausewitz. Consciously or otherwise, the Opposition has centred this election round Modi. And the results affirm a phenomenon that Marxist social scientist William Davies describes as “the leader becomes the truth”.

Under Modi-II, the remnants of that cartel need to be discarded from the country’s academic, cultural and intellectual landscape.(Illustration by CR Sasikumar)

“The data suggests that the ill may have been particularly susceptible to Mr Trump’s message. According to our model, if diabetes were just 7 per cent less prevalent in Michigan, Mr Trump would have gained 0.3 fewer percentage points there, enough to swing the state back to the Democrats. Similarly, if an additional 8 per cent people in Pennsylvania engaged in regular physical activity, and heavy drinking in Wisconsin were 5 per cent lower, Mrs Clinton would be set to enter the White House.”