Highlights: The Indian government has just launched a special educational project. It will send 1,500 children a year, from all over the country, to visit the primary school where the Prime Minister studied. The aim is for Narendra Modi's background, who comes from a modest background, to serve as a model and inspire schoolchildren to "become agents of change" The century-old school in Vadnagar has been renovated and transformed into a museum, which will contain stories about the lives of the greatest figures in Indian history.

The Indian government has just launched a special educational project: it will send 1,500 children a year, from all over the country, to visit the primary school where the Prime Minister studied...

India: a rather special educational project in Narendra Modi's home village

The Indian government has just launched a special education project: it will send 1,500 children a year from all over the country to visit the primary school where Prime Minister Narendra Modi studied, in order to find inspiration to be an exemplary agent of change. A pedagogy very oriented around the cult of the Prime Minister.

The aim of this new educational project is for Narendra Modi's background, who comes from a modest background, to serve as a model and inspire schoolchildren. AP - Manish Swarup

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With our correspondent in New Delhi, Sébastien Farcis

Starting next year, two middle school students from each district of the country will spend a week in the Prime Minister's home village of Gujarat to learn about his childhood and the primary school where he studied. The aim is for Narendra Modi's background, who comes from a modest background, to serve as a model and inspire schoolchildren to "become agents of change".

This century-old school in Vadnagar has been renovated and transformed into a museum, which will contain stories about the lives of the greatest figures in Indian history, and that of Narendra Modi, transformed into a living hero.

« A political pilgrimage attached to Modi »

A further sign of the Prime Minister's cult, according to Nilanjan Mukhopadhyay, author and biographer of Narendra Modi: "This program is like a religious pilgrimage. Except that it is a political pilgrimage attached to Modi, which has become the symbol of the new India. Everything Modi has touched is thus transformed into an ideal in this matter, it is the level of worship that surrounds Narendra Modi. And we can now compare this cult with those surrounding the greatest autocrats in history, such as Stalin or the leaders of North Korea.

This political communication will be all the more effective if these easily impressionable 15-year-old children will then spread these myths in their villages, located all over India.

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India: a rather special educational project in Narendra Modi's home village

India: a rather special educational project in Narendra Modi's home village

« A political pilgrimage attached to Modi »

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