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Comment:
Prime Minister Narendra Modi and the only man he trusts, Amit Shah, the president of his party, have crossed a sacrosanct line: they have foreign policy politics and have made them hostage to their electoral demands .
Consider this: India is surrounded by hostile neighbors and has left a friend, Bangladesh. On many occasions, Shah has compared Bangladeshi Assam migrants to termites.
He said that he would launch the "Ghuspetia"(Contacts). The controversial roll-out of the Assam Citizens Register (ARC) has sparked a loud whistle against minorities and is a frightening and frightening parallel where Hutus call the "roaches" of Tutsis just before the Rwandan genocide.
After the Shah deployed phraseite termites for the sixth time in speeches in the states going to the polls, even Bangladesh protested publicly.
Take, for example, Modi's sweet little things exchanged with Pakistan's new Prime Minister Imran Khan on social media. First Khan's letter to Modi asking for talks was leaked, leaving Khan in an uncomfortable position in Islamabad. Then came the ridiculous spectacle of observing a celebration of what the government calls "the day of the surgical strike" against Pakistan on September 29th. If that were not enough, the army chief Bipin Rawat, who has the gift of rushing into problems, warily declared that India needs to carry out more surgical strikes.
This "head-hunting" adventurism seems to have infected India's foreign policy, China being a great established power, which is now the only exception.
Worse, National Defense Minister Nirmala Sitharaman publicly boasted of "cutting off the head of the Pakistanis" in an interview with a Hindi channel on September 15th. His statement raised questions about India's commitment to the Geneva Convention. This is the first time that an Indian government official has publicly stated that Indian army soldiers had "cut off the head" of Pakistani soldiers during operations on the line of control .
This "head-hunting" adventurism seems to have infected India's foreign policy, China being a great established power, which is now the only exception.
India then invoked a horrific assassination of BSF staff to justify the withdrawal of negotiations at the level of foreign ministers with Pakistan in New York. The Ministry of Foreign Affairs strongly attacked Khan by canceling the talks. Khan then retorted tweeting about the "little men" that he had met.
The Indian office has a long institutional memory and it is unlikely that any official wrote the personal attack on Khan. Unfortunately, under the Modi government, diplomacy is handled by several people, with the exception of the Minister of Foreign Affairs and the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. 
Among them, Ajit Doval, national security advisor, former spooky with no experience in the field of foreign affairs and penchant for advertising.
Then there is Ram Madhav, a Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh Pracharak, written by the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) as Secretary General, posing as Henry Kissinger of Modi and constantly mingling with complex foreign affairs and Kashmir.
Modi also began to say publicly that Pakistan supported Congressman Rahul Gandhi as prime minister. This is an astonishing line to be crossed and never happened in Indian foreign policy where you start playing politics by citing another country.
This is the second time that Modi is delivered there. The first took place during the elections in the state of Gujarat, which the BJP won with a slim margin. Modi said at a public meeting that former Prime Minister Manmohan Singh, former vice president Hamid Ansari and a former army chief were conspiring with Pakistan against him " . This incredible claim of treason was later disavowed by Modi's prime minister's office, who publicly stated that they did not know what Modi had based his complaint on.
The Modi government has a penchant for the use of foreign policy to mark national political points. A young Minister of Modi permanently represses his rivals by saying "go to Pakistan" on social media.
Modi's promise in 2014 to secure India is in shambles. It is shocking that a relationship as important as India and Pakistan is so confrontational and that there is no prospect of normalization for the rest of Modi's mandate.
Khan only begins his term and will have a long memory. Shah's "termite" comments outraged Bangladesh saying "Shah is not qualified to talk about the links between Delhi and Dhaka". Shah's pejorative remarks also made the situation difficult for a friendly Prime Minister, Shaikh Hasina, alienating a rare friend in the neighboring region.
By transforming foreign policy into a national weapon, Modi and Shah have created a terrible legacy. It also testifies to the spectacular failure of Modi's foreign policy in the neighborhood.
As elections approach, expect more abusive language, strange conspiracy theories and the destruction of Indian foreign policy on the altar of the vote bank.
Swati Chaturvedi's book "I'm a troll – Inside the secret BJP digital army" has received international recognition. His Twitter account is @Bainjal.
