India, the world’s largest democracy, recently concluded its six-week-long election and delivered a blow to the ruling Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), whose leader, Narendra Modi, has been prime minister for the past decade. The BJP won 240 seats, a plurality, which still allows it to lead, but via a coalition government in India’s parliamentary system.
The party won landslide majorities in 2014 and 2019, but the nation of 1.4 billion people seems to have lost some of its appetite for Modi’s brand of right-wing, Hindu-supremacist fundamentalism and neoliberal economic policies.
Amandeep Sandhu, a Punjabi writer, journalist, and author of several books, including Panjab: Journeys Through Fault Lines, spoke with YES! Senior Editor Sonali Kolhatkar on YES! Presents: Rising Up With Sonali from India about the election results. Sandhu’s 2022 story for YES! covered the Indian farmers’ protests.
Source: https://www.yesmagazine.org/video/india-election-modi-bjp
Sonali Kolhatkar
Award-winning multimedia journalist, and host and creator of YES! Presents: Rising Up with Sonali.
