What’s the political fallout for India’s Prime Minister Narendra Modi? 

In India, COVID-19 has led to the death of more than a quarter of a million people. Many Indians are calling out Prime Minister Narendra Modi for negligence and mismanagement during the pandemic. The World’s Marco Werman spoke with Milan Vaishnav, a senior fellow and director of the South Asia Program at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, to find out what this means for Modi’s future.

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