Green Tea Morning - India ahead of the 2024 elections

India will hold general elections between April and May 2024 to elect members of the Lok Sabha, the lower house of India's bicameral Parliament. It is widely expected that the incumbent Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) will win the elections and that Prime Minister Narendra Modi will continue to lead the government for another five-year term.

The political situation in India has consolidated towards majoritarianism and partisan politics, making for a heady cocktail of hate speeches during election campaigns and polarized voting.

The ongoing BJP election campaign discourse builds upon the Hindutva nationalist ideology and is characterized by an aggressive and divisive nationalist narrative, which drives the communal strife that expounds across religions, castes, languages and regions within India.

This trend is deterministic of the sharp and entrenched divide between majority and minority geographies within India, making exclusionary decisions and policies normalized over the past.

One month ahead of the elections, we would like to discuss with Dr. Mirza Zulfiqur Rahman, Program Coordinator and Research Associate at Regional Office of Heinrich Böll Foundation in Delhi, about the election and its likely impact on India’s politics, on secularism and on the working environment for civil society organizations.

The event will be held in English with no translation.  

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Contact:
Felix Speidel
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