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    BBC: Why women vote for India PM Narendra Modi’s BJP

    Nalin MehtaBy Nalin MehtaApril 19, 2022Updated:February 14, 2023No Comments2 Mins Read
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    Nalin Mehta’s views were featured by BBC in this article on 19 April 2022.

    Behind every successful man is a woman, goes the popular saying.

    BJP’s recent wins in state elections have been propelled by women

    “Nalin Mehta, political scientist and author who extensively researched the topic for his recent book The New BJP, says the party began its women’s outreach in 1980 when it formed a women’s wing.

    “The BJP had some important and powerful female leaders then and it made significant promises on women-specific issues, but not many women voted for the BJP for decades afterwards. The party was largely seen as dominated by patriarchal men and held little appeal for women.”

    The big change that happened in 2019 at the national level, he says, can be traced back to 2007 when Mr Modi made a bid for re-election as the chief minister of the western state of Gujarat.

    It was the first time, Mr Mehta says, that Mr Modi”extensively courted women” – earning the moniker of “India’s unlikeliest sex symbol”.

    A significant part of the BJP’s female supporters are from rural areas and below poverty line homes

    “Mr Modi has often been heard saying that we are building a welfare network which takes care of women from the cradle to the grave. The schemes are not perfect but they are definitely making a difference,” Mr Mehta says.

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    Professor Nalin Mehta is Dean, School of Modern Media, UPES; Advisor, Global University Systems and Non-Resident Senior Fellow, Institute of South Asian Studies, National University Singapore. He is an award-winning social scientist, journalist and author who has held senior leadership positions in major Indian media companies; international financing institutions like the Global Fund in Geneva, Switzerland; taught and held research positions at universities and institutions in Australia (ANU, La Trobe University), Singapore (NUS), Switzerland (International Olympic Museum) and India (IIM Bangalore, Shiv Nadar University).

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