Vote terror

摘要

NARENDRA MODI, India's prime minister, likes to talk tough on terror. On the campaign trail he tirelessly projects himself as a fear-inspiring avenger. If Pakistan returns a captured fighter pilot, as recently happened following an airstrike India says hit a Pakistan-based terror camp, it is because the neighbouring state is scared of him, he says. Referring to the carnage at Easter in Sri Lanka, he claims that no such attacks have occurred in India during his five years in office. "Under Modi they cannot escape punishment," boasted the prime minister, who often refers to himself in the third person, at a rally ahead of the third phase this week of India's seven-stage general election. His opponents, he insinuates, are soft on terror.