Remember Narendra Modi’s sneery comment about the ‘Khan Market gang’ during the election campaign last year? Modi’s victory in last year’s general election buried for good the old effete, English-speaking ruling elite who once controlled all the levers of political power, but it did something else as well. It built around the Prime Minister an aura of invincibility. Those who dare to tweet against the Prime Minister or his policies are labeled ‘traitors’. For the first time since he became Prime Minister, he has been publicly attacked.

Source: Indian Express December 05, 2020 22:07 UTC