Then came the feet, trampling the image into the muddy ground with gleeful abandon. Just a week earlier, such scenes in the heart of India's capital would have been almost unthinkable.
Then came the feet, trampling the image into the muddy ground with gleeful abandon.
Just a week earlier, such scenes in the heart of India's capital would have been almost unthinkable.
For the 12 years Modi and his Bharatiya Janata party (BJP) have been in power it was widely acknowledged that you criticised the government at your peril.
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Then came the feet, trampling the image into the muddy ground with gleeful abandon. Just a week earlier, such scenes in the heart of India's capital would have been almost unthinkable. For the 12 years Modi and his Bharatiya Janata party (BJP) have been in power it was widely acknowledged that you criticised the government at your peril.
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