NEW DELHI, April 8 -- Seeing the supposedly huge public approval and his imminent win as a validation of his policies of hatred and so forth in 2019, he and his party pulled out all the stops to ruin the nation, taking it down an irreversible path of ethno-religious hatred and political fascism.

Before landing the nation's top political job, Modi was the chief minister of Gujarat for more than 12 years. He was investigated - and ultimately acquitted after two decades - over his administration's alleged complicity in the 2002 Hindu-Muslim riots in which more than 1,000 people, mostly Muslims, died. The US State Department refused him a visa for nearly a decade, but he never had to sit out a political contest at home. If the same courtesy ...