Modi pledges development with Hindu nationalism

India's prime ministerial frontrunner Narendra Modi pledged good governance and development Monday as he released his party's delayed manifesto that also included controversial Hindu nationalist policies. Modi and other Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) leaders unveiled their blueprint for government just hours after polls opened in the world's biggest election, which they are widely expected to win. "Good governance and development (are) the two issues on which we are fighting these elections," Modi, the party's prime ministerial candidate, said at party headquarters in New Delhi. The 52-page manifesto also pledges to revise the country's nuclear doctrine whose main principal is that New Delhi would not be the first to use nuclear weapons in a conflict. A new government would revise the doctrine "to make it more relevant to challenges of current times" without giving details, the manifesto said. India carried out nuclear tests in 1998, and rival Pakistan quickly followed suit, before New Delhi drew up the policy, according to AFP.