Second Pandemic Wave Tests India’s Reforms and its Leader’s Popularity

... since Narendra Modi was re-elected as the prime minister of India. In total, the Indian leader has been in power at the national level for 7 years, since 2014. The new wave of the pandemic that has hit India interfered with the interim assessment of Narendra Modi’s second tenure as Prime Minister in a positive light. In a very short span of time, the number of COVID-19 infected persons in India has skyrocketed—from 8,000 detected and officially reported cases as of February 1, 2021 to 12,000 as of March 1. This figure exceeded the enormous 400,000 infections per day in early May. At the moment, this indicator ...