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Podcast: News and Views
Episode: Why PM Modi Should Listen to these Dissenting Voices from Varanasi
Description: In 2014, a phenomenal political performance by the then candidate Narendra Modi clinched Varanasi as his ‘karmabhoomi’. Expectations soared to unimaginable heights as to how he would transform Kashi to Kyoto.
Since then, PM Modi has tried to deliver, by flooding the 2,500-year-old sacred city with projects worth thousands of crores. Almost every government department did their bit for the prime minister’s constituency. Most admit that the push to clean Kashi and make it a smart city, was also unprecedented.
But as Varanasi folks take stock of Modi ji’s performance, there are strong voices of disse...