Narendra Modi’s political rise in some ways mirrors India’s personal path from a newly impartial nation free of the shackles of colonialism to a assured, safe nation inching ever nearer to superpower standing — albeit one wracked by deep and abiding fault strains.

Born into humble origins three years after India’s independence, Modi has ascended to the top of India’s political panorama.

He got here into energy on a promise of improvement and development in 2014, and was reelected with a roaring majority within the subsequent common election, 5 years later.

He is now taking the ability he has accrued to new ranges, anticipated to win a uncommon third consecutive time period on this month’s nationwide election, buoyed by ranges of recognition for a two-term incumbent that defy all fashionable conventions, each in India and all through a lot of the democratic world.

But the very nature of India’s constitutionally secular democracy is fraying, critics warn, with minority teams feeling deeply marginalized underneath his celebration’s Hindu nationalist insurance policies.