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Malevolent republic5/19/2023 ![]() ![]() ![]() Today, the rate of unemployment is the highest India has known in 20 years. ![]() Modi pledged to create 20m jobs annually. None of the big promises that delivered Modi’s Hindu-first Bharatiya Janata party (BJP) an absolute majority in parliament in 2014 – the first time in 30 years that a single party was voted into power – have been honoured. This election has, in effect, been a referendum on whether the republic retains its founding ideals or, if Modi wins another term – and exit polls released on Sunday show him winning with a comfortable majority – it leaps to a place of sectarianism from which return may be close to impossible. India under Narendra Modi has undergone the most total transformation since 1991. It was the most consequential vote in the lifetime of a majority of Indians alive today. In 2019, the world’s biggest election was much more than a ritual of democracy. ![]()
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