India, the world’s largest democracy, is currently gripped by election fever. Modi and the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) are set to win big, as popularity for the current governing party, the Indian National Congress (INC), is in steep decline. Yet, in the complex Indian political landscape, nothing is so simple. We will not know the election results until May 16. Aliya Itzkowitz reports, bringing us insight from Harvard professors and students about the upcoming election in which India’s future is at stake.
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Interview and Editing by Aliya Itzkowitz
Filming by Aliya Itzkowitz, Avika Dua, Joe Choe, and Johanna Lee
Music by Dylan Perese