News Snapshot:
In its April 27 issue, The Economist wrote: “In six weeks’ time Narendra Modi is expected to win a third term as India’s Prime Minister, cementing his status as its most important leader since Nehru”. On June 1, as the polling ended, that conclusion appears less certain. To decipher the political outcome’s impact on India’s foreign policy requires some caveats. Three outcomes are possible. One, that the NDA scrapes through despite the BJP falling below its 2019 score of 303, though its allies in the NDA may suffer due to people resenting defection-based, opportunistic alliances. Two, the BJP loses a...