Sources stating that RSS had a deep impact on the political hierarchy of the BJP, specially in the case of Narendra Modi.

The National Health Mission, which included public health programmes targeted at these indices, received nearly 20 percent less funding [323] [324] in 2015 than in the previous year. Under Modi's tenure, India has experienced democratic backsliding, or the weakening of democratic institutions, individual rights, and freedom of expression. Modi Kaka Ka Gaon (Modi uncle's town), a 2017 Indian Hindi-language drama film by Tushar Amrish Goel, is the first biopic about Modi.Modi’s India is a sobering account of how a once-vibrant democracy can go wrong when a government backed by popular consent suppresses dissent while growing increasingly intolerant of ethnic and religious minorities. Nielsen, Kenneth Bo; Nilsen, Alf Gunvald (30 December 2021), "Hindu nationalist statecraft and Modi's authoritarian populism", Routledge Handbook of Autocratization in South Asia (1 ed.

While naming his cabinet, Modi renamed the Ministry of Environment and Forests the "Ministry of Environment, Forests, and Climate Change", and more-than-halved its money allocation in his administration's first budget. In March 2023, Modi excercised cricket diplomacy by hosting his counterpart Prime Minister of Australia Anthony Albanese for a "Friendship through Cricket" event to celebrate 75 years of diplomatic ties at the 75 Years of Friendship through Cricket Event at the Narendra Modi Stadium in Ahmedabad. Modi's administration passed a land-reform bill that allowed it to acquire private agricultural land without conducting a social impact assessment, and without the consent of the farmers who owned it. In September 2014, Modi introduced the Make in India initiative to encourage foreign companies to manufacture products in India with the goal of turning the country into a global manufacturing hub. Modi's foreign policy, similarly to that of the preceding Congress government, focused on improving economic ties, security and regional relations.

His books include The Pakistan Paradox: Instability and Resilience and Hindu Nationalism: A Reader (Princeton).

He won in both constituencies, defeating Aam Aadmi Party leader Arvind Kejriwal in Varanasi by 371,784 votes and Madhusudan Mistry of the Congress in Vadodara by 570,128 votes. Advani did not want to ostracise Patel and was concerned about Modi's lack of experience in government. The Modi administration tried to attract foreign investment in the Indian economy from several sources, especially East Asia, with the use of slogans such as " Make in India" and " Digital India". Main article: Bharatiya Janata Party campaign for the 2014 Indian general election Narendra Modi hands over his resignation as Maninagar MLA to the Speaker of the Gujarat Vidhan Sabha. The BJP won 31 percent of the vote, [38] and more-than-doubled its number of seats in the Lok Sabha to 282, becoming the first party to win a majority of seats on its own since 1984.It showed a marginal improvement in rates of infant mortality and its position with respect to individual consumption declined. Dhattiwala, Raheel (2019), Keeping the Peace: Spatial Differences in Hindu-Muslim Violence in Gujarat in 2002, Cambridge University Press, p.