Modi - demagogue or democrat?

He rose to be the state’s leading politician rising from obscure beginnings and minor offices. Long before other leaders, he realised that the key to winning power was to establish a close personal bond with his voters. He toured the state incessantly, used the print and the new electronic media masterfully to enter the minds of common people, attacked privilege remorselessly and appealed massively to the religious sentiments of the vast majority of the state’s population.