The G-20 summit begins in New Delhi. But host Narendra Modi abuses the international stage to expand his own power. While he celebrates economic success, he shapes his country into a Hindu nation state. Western leaders watch in silence. This can not go well.-
Since 1999, the heads of state of the world’s 20 most important industrial nations have met annually at the G-20 summit. Every year they all use the stage to present themselves as successful world leaders. It is also a tradition that the host nation in particular promotes itself. But what India’s Prime Minister Narendra Modi is organizing, who is opening the summit this weekend in New Delhi, reaches an unprecedented level. He is abusing the summit for his own election campaign. The new elections next year are expected to put him in office for the third time.