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he Narendra Modi government swept to power for a second term in May 2019 with 353 MPs, out of which the BJP had a majority on its own of 303 MPs, the highest ever tally for the party. Modi 2.0 hit the ground running with big bang events on the political front that gladdened his vote bank. Rendering Article 370 a dead letter, a mere motto of the BJP for long, was accompli shed in August 2019. Later that year, the Supreme Court ruled in favour of constructing a Ram temple in Ayodhya. A month later, the controversial Citizenship (Amendment) Act was rolled out—it

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