As India votes, doubt grows about Modi’s intentions
India’s prime minister is set to extend his power once the election results are known. That is likely to bring further tests for Australia and the world.
Australia, like many in the West, has one arm firmly around Delhi’s economic and strategic opportunities and the other rather awkwardly around Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s increasingly illiberal authoritarianism.
Revelations of Indian espionage in Australia and the pressuring of Australian journalist Avani Dias to leave the country are raising fresh questions about exactly what kind of partner India will be in Modi’s hands.
