Young Global Leaders – India Start-up

Head of the Hindu-nationalist Bharatiya Janata Party, or BJP, Narendra Modi’s victory put an end to the decades-long political reign of the Nehru-Gandhi dynasty and awakened hopes within the population of a new beginning.

While serving as chief minister of Gujarat, a state in the northwest of India, he oversaw economic growth that exceeded the national average. But people have not yet forgotten his failure to prevent the 2002 anti-Muslim pogrom in Gujarat that left more than a thousand people dead.
Now Modi’s government is working to ensure peace. Expensive infrastructure overhaul projects are meant to modernize the country and revive the country’s faltering economy.
In a demonstrative show of reconciliation, on the day of his inauguration Modi met with arch-rival Pakistan’s prime minister. But will Modi succeed in smoothing out all their differences? The country is torn apart like no other, and is still smarting over shocking reports of murderous violence against women.

In our series Young Global Leaders, we talk to young people who will shape the future of the world’s second most populous country.