Modi's approval rating is still above 60%, but the growing dissatisfaction suggests the prime minister may not so easily be able to change public sentiment by pushing emotional nationalist causes or shifting his image as he has done in the past
FILE — Prime Minister Narendra Modi of India addresses a crowd of more than 18,000 at Madison Square Garden in New York, Sept. 28, 2014. Modi’s efforts to squelch dissent and to accentuate the positives may not be able to counter widespread anger over his government’s stumbling response to the coronavirus pandemic. (Ruth Fremson/The New York Times).
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