If the 2014 elections were about hope for India’s vast swathes of unemployed youth, the 2019 elections are about fear.
“This is not a real election. It is a virtual election being fought on the imaginary issues of national security,” said Shiv Visvanathan, a social anthropologist and professor at O.P. Jindal Global University. “It is a total invention.”
Rashmi Jain, a 40-year-old homemaker in Meerut, a northern Indian city with a history of communal violence, said she saw no alternative to Modi.“He has a great personality. He has put India on the map. The leader of countries like Japan, America and Indonesia support him. They want to work with him.
“We still have to see whether people are sold on national security and all this ‘we have to be a great nation.’” she said. “We still have to see whether the election is going to be about the economy or national security.”A supporter of Bharatiya Janata Party holds a mask of Prime Minister Narendra Modi during an election rally in Meerut in Uttar Pradesh on March 28, 2019.In 2014, Modi and the BJP swept to power on the promise of delivering jobs to India’s legion of unemployed youth.
Saxena has heard that Modi is thick friends with Donald Trump and has some sway over the president of the United States. This leads him to believe that Modi has a standing among world leaders.
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