Why India’s election is such a big deal | Start Here
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Published 2024-04-08
#AJStartHere with Sandra Gathmann explains how the election will work, why Narendra Modi and the BJP are expected to win again, and how India is changing under them.
Chapters:
00:00 - Intro
01:26 - How India’s massive election will work
02:28 - The key players: Modi and the BJP
02:48 - The key players: Rahul Gandhi, the Congress Party and the INDIA opposition alliance
03:48 - Modi’s popularity
06:12 - Hindutva explained
08:32 - Fears about the direction that India’s going in under Modi
09:35 - Violence and discrimination against the Muslim community in India
10:06 - India’s controversial citizenship law
This episode features:
Rohan Venkat - Non-Resident Visiting Scholar & Consulting Editor, Center for the Advanced Study of India, University of Pennsylvania
Sanjay Kapoor - Editor, Hardnews
Radhika Ramaseshan - Contributing Editor, Business Standard
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All Comments (21)
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200 million is not a minority not even in India
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The best part is Qatar is telling India that Modi is threatening democracy...😂😂😂
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If Al Jajeera is crying, it means India is in the right direction
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Muslim is not a minority religion in India, It's the 2nd highest majority religion
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Look who is Talking about Democracy and Election 😂😂
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57 Muslim Countries in this world 🌎 how many are Truly Secular, India 🇮🇳 is Secular because Hindu is in Majority and India 🇮🇳 will be Secular till the Hindu is in Majority.
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I demand an election in Qatar
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Bahrain 1.47 M Kuwait 4.27 M Oman 4.58 M Qatar 2.70 M Saudi Arabia 36.41 M United Arab Emirates 9.44 M In India, 200 million population count as minority....
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When did 200 million become a minority. That's more than 5 countries combined.
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Al Jazeera commenting on Indian democracy is like Bin Laden talking about Gandhiji 😄.
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Everyone is talking about Bharat 🇮🇳 Everyone has an eye on India 🇮🇳 Mera desh badal raha hain 🇮🇳
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As a christian living in India i gotta say that hindu people are good Ive had many hindu friends too
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Middle East teaching Democracy Is the best thing 😂😂😂😂
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We want Qatar election analysis pls. 🤧🤧
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Fun Fact, Muslim actually benefit the most from Modi's Welfare schemes. They are 14% in population and benefits over 40% of the welfare schemes, how does that make Modi Anti-Muslim? Now don't go on spamming CAA or NRC because everyone has enough of that 😂
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Al habibi what is democracy? But we wants to stick our nose 🐽🐽 into other democracy 😂😂
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Irony to see Authoritative regimes schooling India on democracy.
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Day by day Temples were demolished by Pakistani citizens , what about that @Al Jazeera??
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I watch undemocratic nations news channel to laugh Like Aljazeera 😂
