Modi may have ‘less time’ to devote to foreign policy after failing to secure majority

Griffith University International Relations Professor Ian Hall believes there is a “fair amount of stability” in India’s politics but Modi now may have “less time” to devote to foreign politics. Narendra Modi’s party failed to secure a majority for the first time in a decade at India’s recent elections. “I think there’s a fair amount of stability in terms of India’s foreign policy,” Mr Hall told Sky News Australia. “It’s commitment to things like the Quad and the bilateral relationship with Australia, but, of course, a prime minister that is more constrained and more tangled in these kinds of internal debates and discussions with his coalition partners … may have less time to devote to foreign policy. “For Australia, I think we’re going to have to cope with the fact that India’s government may have a little bit of less time to commit to the things that we’re interested in.”