Not many can shower in continuous love.

Prime Minister Narendra Modi completed one year of his second term yesterday. "In the first year of the Modi 2.0, the government has taken several key decisions including the abrogation of Article 370, criminalisation of triple talaq, anti-terror terrorism law, Citizenship Amendment Act and the Supreme Court verdict in the Ayodhya case as an incentive," wrote Abhinav Ranjan. "BJP president JP Nadda said on Saturday that the one year of the Modi government's second term had been a year of accomplishments, and unimaginable challenges that it faced with bold and timely decisions." Modi wrote an open letter to citizens on this anniversary saying, "Dear friends, in this journey of the last six years, you have continuously showered me with love and blessings. It is the strength of your blessings that has made the nation take historic decisions and progress rapidly in the last one year." Talking about Modi's six years in office, Minister Home Affairs, and a confidant from Modi's home state of Gujarat, Amit Shah wrote, "This time, in contrast to the anxiety, stagnation, and hollow promises of the pre-2014 era, the public has seen the ability to reach targets ahead of time with strong leadership, trust in people, their cooperation and self-confidence." Sadly, not everyone agrees with such eulogies. "When periodic labor surveys revealed rising unemployment, the government discontinued them. When the National Sample Survey warned of worsening poverty and malnutrition because rural Indians were cutting even their food expenditure, the government simply killed the survey citing technicalities," wrote former professor and Congress MP MV Rajeev Gowda. Modi is acknowledged as a master of jumla, wrote Ashok Swain. Modi's government is a dictatorship, wrote Siddharth Varadarajan. "Not since the emergency of Indira Gandhi have so many people across India spent so much time in custody for political reasons than in the past year, and never before has the sword of arrest and detention hung over more heads." "At the same time, never before in independent India has there been such impunity for those connected to the establishment." Apparently, Modi was able to evade arrest during emergency by disguising himself as a Sikh. He couldn't escape so easily now. Without any consultation or change of law, Delhi Police is using facial recognition technology against protesters. Facial recognition is widely used in China but is being banned in civilized countries. "Apologists for Indira Gandhi used to say, "at least the trains run on time'. Modi 2.0 is not even able to manage that, such is the shambles of six years of ideologically driven 'governance' have created." As the economy tanks and people die of hunger, will Modi declare an Emergency to hang on to power? Maybe, the fear of an exodus of foreign investors, a rating downgrade and a collapse of the rupee will stop him. We can only hope.