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Triumphant Modi risks losing on the economic front

Failure to create enough jobs for India's young will haunt the BJP

The oddest thing about the Indian elections in which Prime Minister Narendra Modi just crushed the opposition, was the total lack of any real debate about the country's most serious economic question: What will generate growth and jobs?

For the ruling Bharatiya Janata Party, (unlike for former U.S. President Bill Clinton) election outcomes apparently have nothing to do with the economy, stupid.

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