India, Aug. 30 -- For the BJP, the warning is less about an immediate loss of political support and more about ensuring that accumulated local grievances do not eventually become a broader electoral narrative.

The Narendra Modi government continues to enjoy a significant degree of personal goodwill for the Prime Minister, but sections of officials who remain broadly supportive of the government have flagged concerns over governance, ground-level corruption and a weakening feedback mechanism, saying these issues need to be addressed in mission mode. The assessment, emerging from interactions by a group of senior officials with people across different sections of society, is that two of the principal planks that helped establish the BJP's ...