Нарендра Дамодардас Моди (енгл.Narendra Damodardas Modi, рођен 17. септембра1950. у ВаднагаруИндија) је индијски политичар. Лидер је странке Индијска народна партија, изабран је за премијера Индије[1][2][3] и ступио на дужност 21. маја2014. Студирао је политикологију на Гуџаратском универзитету и има мастер диплому.[4] Сматра се да је индијски националиста и члан је Хиндуистичког савеза добровољаца („Rаštríj svajamsеvak sangh“)
1998. године, на захтев тадашњег лидера Народне партије Лал Кришна, водио изборну кампању странке у државама Гуџарат и Химачал Прадеш. У октобру 2001. године, постао је главни министар Џујарата, заменивши Кешубаја Патела. 2007 године, поново је изабран за трећи мандат, и у 2012. години - Четврти
Као у Индији тако и у иностранству, Моди се сматра изузетном контроверзном фигуром, изазвао је оштре критике његове руковање Гуџаратом погрома 2002. године. Конкретно, он је оптужен за пружање заштите индијских муслимана. Упркос томе, моди ужива огромну подршку међу становништвом Гуџарата. Он је заслужан за брз економски раст од државе у 2000-их.
^Narendra Modi. In: Internationales Biographisches Archiv 34/2013 vom 20. August 2013, ergänzt um Nachrichten durch MA-Journal bis KW 14/2014 (abgerufen via Munzinger Online).
^Kaul, Volker; Vajpeyi, Ananya (2020). Minorities and Populism – Critical Perspectives from South Asia and Europe. Springer Publishing. стр. 22. ISBN9783030340988. „...keeping him consistently popular with his voters and supporters. Modi's personal approval ratings have been consistently high...”
^Welzel, Christian; Inglehart, Ronald; Bernhangen, Patrick; Haerpfer, Christian W. (2019), „Introduction”, Ур.: Welzel, Christian; Inglehart, Ronald; Bernhangen, Patrick; Haerpfer, Christian W., Democratization, Oxford University Press, стр. 4, 7, ISBN978-0-19-873228-0, „(p.7) Our diagram ... reveals that India's score in comprehensive democracy is at best half the Western level, which conflicts with the standard democracy measures by Polity and Freedom House where India scores much higher. On the other hand, India's modest democracy performance in the V-Dem data fully confirms Alexander, Welzel, and Inglehart (2012) who argue that India's state of democracy is overestimated by standard measures and needs to take account of serious deficiencies in rule of law and human rights enforcement (cf. Inglehart and Welzel 2005; Welzel and Inglehart 2006; Alexander and Welzel 2011).’ The recent considerable drop of the ‘Indic East’ mainly reflects India's democratic backsliding under the Hindu-nationalist administration of Modi. (p.4 The 'Indic East' comprises those nations in South Asia whose history was shaped by Indian culture.)”
^Chidambaram, Soundarya (2022), „India's Inexorable Path to Autocratization: Looking beyond Modi and the populist lens”, Ур.: Widmalm, Sten, Routledge Handbook of Autocratization in South Asia, Routledge, стр. 130—148, S2CID245210210, doi:10.4324/9781003042211-11, „(T)he electoral success of populist parties has also coincided with a decline of democracy across the globe (Giinther and Liihrmann, 2018). The focal point in this regard is the rise of populist demagogues and authoritarian strongmen who have caused democratic decline by cracking down on political dissent and curbing the autonomy of the judiciary and the free press, thus creating the conditions for democratic backsliding and decline (Levitsky and Ziblatt, 2018). The path of the Bhartiya Janata Party (BJP) in India since 2014 seems to fit this description. The BJP's hegemonic control of Indian politics has been coterminous with aggressive cultural nationalist rhetoric manifesting itself as routinized intimidation and killing of journalists and political critics, vigilante lynching of Muslims, and a general clampdown on dissent (Kesavan, 2017). Narendra Modi, the Prime Minister and leader of the BJP epitomizes the populist strongman with his charismatic appeal, centralization of power (Vaishnav, 2019), and ability to connect with the masses through clever use of media (Martelli and Jaffrelot, 2017; Vaishnav, 2021). Not surprisingly, scholars and commentators looking at contemporary Indian politics converge on the idea that Modi's populist leadership of the BJP is the reason for the havoc being wreaked on democratic institutions in the country (Kinnvall, 2019; Chatterji et al., 2019; Basu, 2018; Chacko, 2018; Nilsen, 2018)”
^„India: Freedom in the World 2021 Country Report”. Freedom House. 2021. „While India is a multiparty democracy, the government led by Prime Minister Narendra Modi and his Hindu nationalist Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) has presided over discriminatory policies and increased violence affecting the Muslim population. The constitution guarantees civil liberties including freedom of expression and freedom of religion, but harassment of journalists, nongovernmental organizations (NGOs), and other government critics has increased significantly under Modi.”
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