Did Bengal just change Modi’s third term?
- Pranab Dhal Samanta
- THE ECONOMIC TIMES May 06, 2026, 13:07 IST IST
This round of assembly elections has provided Narendra Modi with significant strategic heft at a time when the leadership of most democracies are under stress and constrained by a restive, unpredictable, domestic polity. He is the only democratically elected leader to repeatedly win elections, each of which is no less significant than, say, the US midterms.