S Prasannarajan
Before he became India’s prime minister, Modi was India’s chief minister
The state’s new chief minister is a politician who has risen through the ranks
What Modi has done over time, especially by providing public goods that were earlier local in nature, is to greatly weaken the salience of caste-based politics
Increasingly, competitive politics has been reduced to tweets and counter-tweets
A new coordinator adds to the efforts to strengthen the interface between RSS and BJP
Jitin Prasada can now be BJP's Brahmin face in the run-up to the Uttar Pradesh polls