ET: MATHURA/DELHI, India—As India moves toward the culmination of its six-week election process, the big question is whether Prime Minister Narendra Modi will win a second term, or will the scion of the Gandhi dynasty be the next to govern the world’s largest democratic country.
Modi and his Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) swept into power in 2014 with a huge majority win. His main contender this time around is Rahul Gandhi, the leader of the Congress Party and a member of the Nehru-Gandhi family that has occupied a prominent place in the politics of India since independence in 1947.
There are seven phases of voting in the lead-up to the election on May 19, and so far, the turnout at the polls has been robust with people voting in sufficiently large numbers.
In Mathura, a temple town connected to Delhi via a swanky expressway, many who voted in the second phase expressed their preference for Modi. But their praise was not unconditional; most people who spoke to The Epoch Times had some grievance or other, or they accepted criticism of the government, but still favored Modi and his right-wing Hindu nationalist BJP.
I can’t quite put my finger on it, but there’s something appealing about a faction called the BJP.
“Cool Mo-di! Cool Mo-di!” – Bart Simpson
I hope the voters in CALCUTTA and BOMBAY vote for the right wing because it’s the correct wing
…I wonder if either of them offers free ice cream like Joe Biden…
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Just shoot a cow on election morning and fuck the whole thing up.