As prime minister, if one were to exclude his consistent pro-poor rhetoric, Modi can be seen as non-doctrinaire, with his politics and economics fused. His stance changes with the circumstances. You cannot explain his economics without his politics. His first-term policies were dictated by his need to be seen as clean and hard on corruption, which may be why he avoided meeting businessmen—something he did routinely as Gujarat chief minister. In his second, he appears to acknowledge that the economy cannot be revived without business-government trust. He has thus repositioned himself as a proponent of clean “wealth creation", rebuilding trust with India Inc.