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Muere una dinastía, nace un líder – Eva Borreguero

Narendra Modi

La vEva Borregueroictoria de Narendra Modi supone un cambio radical en la trayectoria política india. La utilización de su imagenenIndia ha protagonizado una revolución en la propaganda política. – Prof Eva Borregueo

La victoria de Narendra Modi supone un cambio radical en la trayectoria política india, dominada históricamente por la dinastía Gandhi que fundara Nehru. En la actualidad, él vástago de la misma, Rahul Gandhi, ha sido el reflejo personal de la crisis de ese dominio. Frente a él ha emergido la figura carismática de Narendra Modi, del partido nacionalista BJP, avalado por la brillante gestión del Estado de Gujarat, con la única sombra de las revueltas antimusulmanas de 2002, cuyas víctimas siguen ahí sin ser reconocidas.

La victoria de Modi, más allá de ser un nuevo estadio en los ciclos de alternancia de los grandes partidos, responde a los cambios estructurales que se han producido en la sociedad india en la última década al amparo de unas elevadas tasas de crecimiento económico. El más relevante de ellos es el aumento de la clase media y su creciente influencia al difundir y fortalecer los valores de la sociedad de consumo capitalista, que en India resultan naturalmente propios según los principios hindúes de artha y kama, riqueza y búsqueda del placer, como con frecuencia muestra el prodigioso cine de Bollywood. Es este modelo el que parece haber surgido como aglutinador del mosaico de intereses indios, capaz de superponerse a las lealtades de casta y región que desde 1989 habían impedido alcanzar la mayoría parlamentaria a los partidos y que condenaba el futuro político a un evidente anquilosamiento.

La creciente clase media, y los cientos de millones de indios que aspiran a engrosar sus filas, han visto en Modi una salida a los grandes problemas: corrupción endémica, clientelismo y gestión política ineficaz. Modi, cuya forma de vida espartana contrasta con la de una clase política desacreditada, se ha presentado como el líder idóneo para hacer extensivas las transformaciones que él mismo ha llevado a cabo en Gujarat. Y lo ha logrado con un discurso capaz de fundir las múltiples identidades indias. Convertido en un comunicador de masas, la utilización de su imagen en máscara exhibida por todos sus seguidores en el territorio de la India ha protagonizado una revolución en la propaganda política.

Narendra Modi tiene por delante enormes desafíos. La gestión del gobierno de la India no es equiparable a la de un Estado como Gujarat y su programa es extremadamente ambicioso en todos los ámbitos. Son de prever cambios en la legislación que agilicen la cultura de los negocios, abran el país a las inversiones extranjeras, y que en consecuencia recuperen el crecimiento económico. Veremos a una India más presente tanto a nivel regional como global. Habrá una revisión de la doctrina nuclear del país y se buscarán nuevas relaciones con China.

Queda por ver cómo se gestionará la agenda religiosa y cultural del nacionalismo hindú, cuya implantación ha estado tradicionalmente acompañada de enfrentamientos entre hindúes y musulmanes. De momento lo fundamental es que Modi es para India en su coyuntura actual el hombre de su tiempo. – El Pais, 16 May 2014

» Prof Eva Borreguero, autora de Hindú: nacionalismo religioso y política en la India contemporánea.

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Spanish scholar on Hindu nationalism calls Narendra Modi’s victory ‘significant’ – WHN Reporter

Undoubtedly, Narendra Modi is the man of the moment.

Celebrated writer on Hindu nationalism Eva Borreguero in her article titled “The death of a dynasty, the birth of a leader” in the leading Spanish newspaper El Pais, writes that Narendra Modi’s victory has been significant in many ways.

Most prominently, it has “radically changed the political arena historically dominated by the Gandhi dynasty”, that started with Jawaharlal Nehru and is currently represented by his great-grandson, Rahul Gandhi, she writes.

The expert points out how this election campaign has seen Gandhi pale into insignificance against “the charismatic figure of the nationalist Bharatiya Janata Party leader who has to his credit the successful transformation of the Indian state of Gujarat” but who also bears the cross of the anti-Muslim riots of 2002 in the state.

Borreguero, a professor of political science in the Complutense University of Madrid, says that Modi’s victory is “a reflection of how the Indian society has changed during the last decade in an environment of high rates of economic growth”.

The rise of the middle class and particularly the consumerist values it endorses, she believes, has become the glue that puts together the diverse interests of the Indian society, thus overriding caste and regional loyalties that have divided the mandate since 1989.

In the eyes of this rising class and the hundreds of millions of people aspiring to join its ranks, “it is Modi who will tackle the huge problems of endemic corruption… and poor governance”.

With the reputation of having a spartan lifestyle contrasting drastically with the much maligned political class, Modi has converted himself into a man of the masses, according to the writer. However, the author of Hindu: Religious and Political Nationalism in the Contemporary India also recognises the huge challenges awaiting the future prime minister of India.

These, she writes, include changes in the legislation that will provide impetus to the business culture, open the country to foreign investments and, hence, and restore economic growth.

Also on the cards is a revision of the country’s nuclear policy and a new relationship with China.

However, according to Borreguero, “It remains to be seen how Modi handles the religious and cultural agenda of Hindu nationalism that has, at its worst, traditionally led to many Hindu-Muslim clashes” and delivers on all his promises. – WHN, 25 May 2014