India, June 17 -- 2019 is a watershed year - a definitive inflection point in reshaping the country's political history. Prime Minister Narendra Modi 's popular mandate signifies two dominant trends transforming the political landscape here on. First, there is a fading appeal of political parties who built their capital on pseudo-secularism. Asymmetric appeasement of the 20 per cent minorities in preference to the majority community, which comprises 80 per cent within their own country, will no longer hold. Second, it signals the decimation of self-serving, venal and nepotistic dynasties who held a monopoly on Central as also regional power and governance for far too long.

Modi's successive win stems from a groundswell of Hindu consolida...