“Good days” – with its promise of a bright future for Narendra modi and his party secured a clear victory in the Indian parliamentary elections in 2014, and was Prime Minister. For the vast majority of the 1.3 billion Indians, not an Era of prosperity is modes but dawned. Some see, also, due to its religious nationalism in danger. In the case of well begun, almost six-week election, his chances of winning a second five-year term after polls are still good, not least because of the intermittent threat of war. Is counted at the 23. May.
After defeats in three important regional elections in December, the seemed to be Modi’s hindu nationalist Bharatiya Janata Party (party of the Indian people, BJP) at the same time beatable. Then killed on the 14th. In February, a suicide bomber in the Indian part of Kashmir, 40 members of the Indian security forces. A Pakistani terrorist group claimed for the attack. It was followed by the first air India attack on Pakistani territory since 1971. The tensions between the hostile, nuclear-armed neighboring countries of India and Pakistan had tightened already for a long time in such a way.
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Since then, modes makes use of the Patriotic zeal, the Episode continued for many Indians, free. The 68-Year-old, his Cabinet, as well as a large number of followers added to your profiles in social media the nickname of “Chowkidar” – so called in India, the private security guard in front of houses and shops.
The message to the approximately 900 million electorate: We will protect you. At the same time, the Opposition is portrayed as “anti-national”. “Why has Modi-hatred brought the leader of the opposition, to support those in India who want to destroy it?” tweeted the Premier last Sunday – he has been on Twitter for around 47 million Followers.
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my, The BJP is considered the political Arm of the Hindutva movement, whose followers in India belong to the Hindus. In Modi’s tenure it always came back to Lynch murders of people who were accused of cows brought to the slaughterhouse, killed, or eaten. The cow is to Hindus as sacred.
Many of the Lynch killings in Modi’s term of office
was one of The organization Human Rights Watch between may 2015 and December 2018 in the case of such attacks, 44 deaths – 36 of which are Muslims. Members of the BJP have publicly incited to this violence, it said. The had been accused of the modes already in 2002, after the massacres of Muslims in the state of Gujarat, where he ruled at the time. “The country is experiencing an existential crisis,” warns journalist Anjali Mody in the Online newspaper the Scroll.in. “A pluralistic, inclusive India is defending itself against a hateful “New India” of majority rule.”
Prime Minister Narendra modi hopes for his re-election.Photo: AFP
modi had promised five years ago to create ten million jobs per year. Unemployment is according to the latest Figures from the state statistics authority, however, as high as for 45 years, not more – the Numbers were just about the media to light; the government has not published it and called it incomplete. “India has a Jobkrise, and the government, it would be sweet, you wouldn’t notice it,” wrote the Economist Kaushik Basu in the “New York Times”.
to drag in Spite of much criticized decisions as the measure by the end of 2016, 86 percent of the cash from the traffic, is one of India’s economy under modi to be the fastest growing in the world. She is on the verge of the UK as the world’s fifth-largest carrier.
The development is uneven: there are Now more than a hundred Indian billionaires, the majority of Indians lives in poverty. There is a lack of Jobs for educated young people – about two-thirds of the population are younger than 35 years. In the vast shadow economy, you can find a job, but mostly to precarious conditions.
Opposition wants a minimum income for the Poorest
state Jobs with social benefits are therefore highly sought after. A few months ago, almost 100,000 people on 62 Vacancies as messenger in the case of the police in the North Indian state of Uttar Pradesh applied for. The conditions were a completion of the fifth class, and the ability to ride a Bicycle. According to reports 3700 of the candidates PhD.
Both the BJP as well as the Opposition of the Congress party (Indian National Congress, INC) promise, with a victory for extensive social programs. The BJP wants to pay the many needy farmers an annual help. More than half the population lives from agriculture. The INC has announced a minimum income for the poorest 250 million citizens.
Rahul Gandhi is the great-grandson of the first Prime Minister.Photo: Punt Paranjpe/AFP
Many of the 1.3 billion Indians consider such a choice promise, however, is skeptical, too often they have been disappointed. The INC will also be made after five years in the Opposition for deep-seated problems such as the rampant corruption. The secular centre-left party, most of the time, it was the government, since the country in 1947 became independent from Britain. The 48-year-old party leader and top candidate Rahul Gandhi is the great-grandson of the first Prime Minister, Jawaharlal Nehru, his grandmother Indira Gandhi and his father Rajiv Gandhi also held the office of.
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“My Problem is that I know for whom I should vote,” says the writer and former Manager Gurcharan das in an Opinion piece for the newspaper “Times of India” the Thinking of Many. “I’m disillusioned. The good days have not come, but the nationalism, and the India I love is changing,“ he writes. “I’m surrounded by the modes of disciples and modi-haters, and both of which I find slightly repulsive.” (dpa)