The Indian government has just launched a special educational project: it is sending 1,500 children a year from all over the country to visit the primary school where Prime Minister Narendra Modi studied, to be inspired by him to be an agent of change. copy. An educational approach based on the cult of the prime minister.
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With Sébastien Farcis, RFI correspondent in New Delhi
Starting next year, two schoolchildren from each district in the country will spend a week in the prime minister’s hometown in Gujarat, learning about his childhood and the primary school where he studied. The aim is for Narendra Modi, from a modest background, to serve as a role model and inspire schoolchildren to “become change agents”.
For this reason, this centuries-old school in Vadnagar has been renovated and transformed into a museum, which will contain stories about the lives of some of the greatest figures in Indian history, including Narendra Modi, who has become a living hero.
“A political pilgrimage linked to Modi”
Yet another sign of the prime minister’s cult status, according to Narendra Modi biographer and author Nilanjan Mukhopadhyay: “This program is like a religious pilgrimage. Except it’s a political pilgrimage to Modi, who has become the symbol of the new India. Everything Modi has touched has thus become an ideal in this sense, which is the level of the cult that surrounds Narendra Modi. And now we can compare this cult to the one that surrounds the greatest autocrats in history, such as Stalin or the leaders of North Korea”.
This political communication will be all the more effective as these easily impressionable teenagers will then spread these myths in their villages, located in the four cardinal points of India.
