Opinion: From "AI" In US To UCC In Bhopal - Modi's Diverse Bandwidth

Narendra Modi is a communicator with diverse bandwidth. Having returned after a successful six-day foreign visit on Sunday, he spoke to 10 lakh booth-level workers of the BJP virtually from Bhopal to kick-start the "mera booth, sabse majboot" (my polling booth is the strongest) campaign, setting the party's agenda for next year's General Election.

Since the mid-1980s, when he, as a state secretary oversaw the Ahmadabad municipal poll, ensuring his party's first triumph in Gujarat, Modi has relied on the party's sangathan (organisation), of which booth-level workers are the strongest link.

Addressing the Joint Session of the US Congress last week, he received 53 rounds of applause and a record 15 standing ovations. The effect of his discourse in Bhopal was equally electrifying for his party's core workers. (And it divided the Opposition; two of the 17 Patna participants, AAP and Uddhav Shiv Sena, have favoured it. Some, like the DMK, have vehemently opposed it while others have sought time to study the issue) Be it promoting international cooperation or seeking better internal cohesion within his party (while setting a cat among pigeons in the Opposition), Modi seems to easily switch bandwidth and appeal to his audience.

In Washington, he spoke of the "American Dream", in which Indian migrants are contributing. His comment addressed the USP of US: "In the past few years there have been many advances in AI-artificial intelligence. At the same time there have been more momentous advances in another AI-America and India."