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The excellent relations - according to the newspaper - since Modi took office in May 2014 can be explained primarily by the common interests between the two countries. Both leaders are right-wing nationalists with authoritarian tendencies. Modi heads the ruling Hindu nationalist Bharatiya Janata Party, and was also formerly active in its paramilitary group, the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh. He was banned from entering the United States for nearly a decade after he was deemed responsible for a massacre of Muslims in the state of Gujarat in 2002.