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the regional boast, but also a test for india's 5 minister and his governing b, j. p. party, the reader mode, he stands accused of being divisive. so how will these state elections shape his political future? and what will that mean for democracy in india? this is inside story. ah. blow welcome to the program. i'm kim vanelle. millions of people in india will be voting in state elections this week and until march, the 7th ballots will be cast across 5 states among them the most populous who tell

pradesh results. there are seen as a referendum on prime minister read ramadi and his governing b. j. p party indicating how people may vote during the next national elections. opposition policies are trying to capitalize on the b. j piece. decline in popularity caused by 3 farming laws that triggered protests for more than a year. have never tell sent us this report from top british we're outside the polling station in a row high noted for the issue of people, a lining up to cost their vote in dallas biggest state election. now the issue is home to more than 200000000 people and changing the highest number of members to in just parliament and therefore has an outside importance in just political landscape . this election is widely seen as a church, a prime minister ranger mode. these popularity. now this is an agrarian state which back to b, j. b, overwhelmingly. in 2017. but since spend support among farmers has dwindled. for

one, many of them participated in that year long agitation against the 3 farm laws. they had failed big corporations. now those laws were eventually revoked by the prime minister because of these upcoming elections. but many farmers have continued to protest over unmet demand or the financial issues like price, right. and unemployment are also playing out in the schools. and not just that with dish for other states in india also holding elections this month. results for all will be out on march 10. analysts say that the b g p just continue to be a favorite and we'll watch out for the victory margin in the stage of what they're really i'm partnering with them for inside story. okay, we'll begin out discussion in a moment, but 1st let's bring you up to date with india's journey so far on the new render. murray and the hindu nationalist. b. j. p. modi became prime minister with an historic landslide victory and national general elections in 2014. he was soon

accused of trying to silence opposition after activist journalists critical of the government, again being arrested in 2019 mowdy was reelected. he then imposed a wide spread crack down and locked out on the dispute region of kashmir and revoked its semi autonomous stages. that same year protest erupted nationwide after moody and it a controversial citizenship law, provided citizenship for religious minorities, but excluded muslims. in 2020 farming reform law was passed. it prompted months long, peaceful protests and strikes which sometimes turned violent in recent months. the b. j. p. has been accused of allowing hate speech against muslims and it's rallies and polarizing the country. as january bishop, he controlled states began imposing a ban on religious headscarf, one by muslims in schools. ah, by let's bring in our guests in new delhi, we have sedans who mattel,

a politician and senior leader in the bahamas tia generates a party of a j, p, and kaci pull c k rodge a lawyer at the spring court of india, and carola high course and in luck now fatma con a journalist at the quint. thank you very much for joining us. one welcome to program. i'd like to start with you sit on shoot metal. if these elections are a referendum on your end, or modi, whose half way through his term and on the rolling e j. p, of which you are a part, how do you feel it's going to go? yeah, i don't think it sort of friend him on mr. not in the will be, he's ruling the country. he's the prime minister. this as a to friend bermonte rule of mr. or the bill yogi of you can up you he who the chief minister of that state who was really good girl who has been at the home of her 1st for the last 5 years. so to qualitative friend or one, no mister bodies, he is an exaggeration. you'll be a very,

very critical state. the population of he'll be, is more than a to $25000000.00 people. just should it actually gone to one 6th or b? none member of parliament seat. so yes, explain good. but the critically sure this time before people and they make the choices is the earlier the link led by a t lee shadow of a party called somebody. marty appeared to waste. ah, what would other the which is which is her own the dvd, most her jungle right. it, it, it, it, it, it is the are manifestation of the commonality perpetrated by a section of people that official patronage. that is what people saw for the last 5 years, and that is when they chose and decided to or forbid it. the reason was that one particular kind religious community and one particular cast had dominant. so the

law and order was she lived there. so every police station had a majority of these people. you could not fight cases against them. there did a written ramrod, they would abduct people, they were, your dirt ticker, does enter the field and her ticket with the lender clipping their ownership, that the women were not saved it, anybody could be abducted on people could be beaten up at the mercy. so that fearful environment necessitated the people to opt for a government which will be center and quality and which will eliminate the mafia, raj or kathy, the rule of the mafia, the rule of the criminals. i haley, hang on percent of the summer. i hear a 2nd, i just wanna clarify for our international audi until we talk about youth. we talk about it, we're talking about a per dash and i to cross over to you just for your response and fast nacken on it's a, you're a journalist, your covering run up to these elections. do you think that these are, are a litmus test for the prime minister?

i think it is a mistake or the b, g, b as a whole a, you know, these elections, they come right on the heels of the number of historic events that have been in country in the last couple of years alone. the families brought us that you mention 13 month long, almost 4 days where several formulas from different parts of no india. the sat at the benefits of the national gap requesting against the b j. b, they member the farmers. i had it in a huge chunk, a huge majority of on it or the be to be in the previous 2 elections as well as the 2019 also for the pharmaceutical state. and mobilize them says against the pgp was a huge method of cause. we cannot forget the school with 2nd gave, which it averaged to multiple states to produce alone. so might to put it there multiple casualties because of a complete infrastructure in collapse under the b b and add that dame of course it was being said that if nothing, this will be the downfall of the b. of course, i've been covering these elections for the last 2 months now,

i've been on the field and i can tell you the pgp does continue to, to me, to italy who didn't populate, or not withstanding. of course, the fact that there are people who continue to have their grievances, ultimately this, if i have to put it simplistically, i'd say that it is a matter of choice that the world does have to be between. you know, the beatles hindered by the band of in the feminist or more the, and the b popularized across the country was, is momentarily shows that they might have faced whether we a being with the fun lows all over and wave or does generally price stays infrastructure issues and anything that you would consider any other scenario would be in off season bring down a government, how much cost over the country and, and i do see you there as well. mr. michelle, we will come back to you shortly. but 1st i'd like to go to a c k rush hour in kaci. we spoke there about some of the issues at play. you've written about hate speech,

and there is rising hindu nationalist sentiment across the, across the country right there. when protests in one state about the decision to ban the wearing of the muslim headscarf in educational settings. so you believe the role of courts is more important than ever talk us through that and what your assessment is to thank you so much for the question. and congratulations, hampton's speaking and organizing a debate on a very important issue which are which in fact the world is watching. i were infecting this them of a beer that is launched by the right wing government, which is led by more thing has been widespread. it's been also incremental. if we look at how the nature of this lemma from we are and munched, we will see that in the beginning that the attempt was to consider or treat muslims a 2nd class citizen. so that's what we have seen with the citizenship amendment. act in 2019 by which they said that to censure will be extended to all communities outside india except for muslims, muslims were ineligible to apply. ready for citizenship in the country,

that would be fine, incremental process of birth, converting them and where the actual citizens a were to 2nd class citizenship. and from that we have, we have come to a situation where that is an open call for genocide against muslims. that's precisely what happened in had a dwelling in city in december that had that a group of so called st. assembled. and they said that in the i should be in the state. and they said that what the, what should be done in the, in, in, in their capacity to transform india into a hindu state. and they were, in fact, there were references made to the genocide that occurred in myanmar against the finger of the cheese, the foot. this is the political context in which we are talking about and the sisters of body as carrion and very intimidating at more social, political context for us in a lot of how does the law deal with that kind of rhetoric it, it's been quite interesting to see that the lined ardor situation in the and in

biggest states has been, has been dealing with it quite poorly. for example, the, the genocide call, which was made in december, there was no registration of if i out, which is called, which is, which is the 1st information report, which is, which means the registering of a crane that has the initial registering of a crime with the police that has not happened until recent calls were, were done, and there was an anonymous public pressure on the police to actually registered a crime. and even while registering the crime important provisions of the indian people court were left out of this of this registration. and only very few provisions were actually charged against the things who in fact, made an open cancelled on site. and coming back to your quest for how the, our constitutional courts were dealing with with it. i would think that that the idea of constitutional code is to essentially become the majority of him to listen to these kind of majority in atrocities against the minorities. and i do not think that, that in supreme court, all the high court in the country has been dealing quite actively with it. they have been adopting very broadly of course, as

a very broad generalizing statement. they've been dealing with it with it quite passively inquired indifferently. and many occasions have seen corpse taking blankly at the side of the executive rights at alto, metallic, and say you wanting to jump in there. go ahead. is the most vicious and untruthful state by the worker. let me start to be 1st. the citizen amendment act shed, he says it denies some muslims citizenship of this county. you are completely wrong and untrue. for the simple reason, this act was enacted for protecting the minorities off your critic states with her being persecuted and compared to leave the countries now which are with your critic states. fuck as far as your critic status got up, was slim majority the persecution of religious minorities of pakistan. when they come to india, we said we will protect. i've gone this time when they come to india,

we said will protect it. so it is all states which up your critique states good by of majority, which happens to be muslims. and then the religious minorities when persecuted when they come to india, including bunger this, that is when they're given the citizenship. now for if a majority, or if a member of a majority of up your critic state guns and seeks for citizenship easy religious li, persecuted no. so this is giving citizenship to religiously persecuted minorities. ok. by at your critics. i know that a, what i want to do is jump into a retrospective of, of that issue of the time because what we're talking about is how this was received to find the indian lake in with and how that is going to translate into the elections that is what we want to talk with her. so let's, let's talk about the elections below dory, which you heard from the previous to. the speakers has been to sol,

hatred among religious community, saying muslims are angry with the hindu dominated state. you will delays that the state has not discriminated against the hindus or the muslims show me. one example where the government of the day has said, this is what is available to other religious, the majority of this, of not what is available to at least by the audit. i think i think it all, i think everybody harry thing with some of everybody here, chris seems to agree with polarization, but i can see over in now fatima, can i do see your money with? i think it was from fuels actually that we that we ensure everybody has the right of reply and that we, we keep this even please go ahead. fatima con in luck now. yes. yes. a number of things go to one. i could you like to adjust that when you talk about a misdemeanor is going on and on about the numbers? it's really just the prosecutor minorities, again out into india like last can. what about your heating, young man?

i was also unable that we're doing him out citizenship in the country. secondly, the fact that even i don't think it's given it even made it the big at this point of time. whether or not you'll get it, they're not trans image or didn't government. i think it is a given, i think is better. why speak to on the basis of what is it in so many words just to give you one example, he was asking for example and give you one, you'll get it in the chief minister in his, in his election that he's ordering all it again. he's used it that did it explicitly say that he will bring him to russia meeting the hindu nation. he's explicitly said that there's a fight between 80 percent was the 20 percent adult whistle against winston minorities is explicitly said, it's so fun you'll be has only had a government that is focused on compass and call this time is do the graveyard. he's repeatedly used, go with them, go with all what and what again in so many words,

even organized. so i haven't like more to understand with a standard night and denies it. ok, can the whole, i think just going but going back on the elections, i think it is important to understand it. communism and it has been normalized in this it. and if you get to that comes back to power and this is use possibility that he will, i will not deny the fact that he continues to be hugely popular among them is good . and if he does come back to body, could be a signal sent out for several other states in the country. this kind of politics is acceptable normalize and will be standing. so, so far as i want to come over to you to has the opposition for those and opposition to the page that they have capitalized on. you know, some of the frustrations that might be there it's, it's a important question of that. now i think the opposition, unfortunately, has not been able to consolidate, effectively against the in the right wing, a hindu rhetoric that, that, that, that has been pushed forward. and i think there is considerable potential for the

opposition parties in the country to come together and form coalitions and all the fight states when which upcoming elections and in fact, our polls have begun in some of them. and that there is a tremendous potential for that. but unfortunately, i would think that the we put in the potential is not being fully made use of including by, by the congress, by the which in fact is the largest oppositional a party in the, in the national scenario. and that is, in fact, one of the reasons why the b, j, p and, and the elias, including the other, says, unable to come forward an adult to push the rhetoric of hate in the country. it is partly, it is the failure of the, of the opposition and partly it is the failure of the populace. i think a country where, where that has been quite, quite a large amount of social, economic, backwardness, quite a large amount of illiteracy is unable to, i think, a, to a great extent see that the dangers of hindu majority, a party which of it and,

and the kind of principle they're trying to so and that they're, they're somewhat being blinded by the promise of development by the promise of a betterment and, and, and by the promise of rejecting india to be one of the world leading countries are all of the economy. the promises of a, of a trillion economy when india is still remains according to oxfam and other findings to means as one of the most unequal countries in the world were aware that a so much inequality that, that thrives, that the attempt is to sort of hide that the attempt is to not address the socio economic inequalities of the attempt as rather to a project in the as well as a leading walter economic which at which it clearly is not okay. i want to come back over to sit on to me. hal in you dally, i could see you wanted to get in there. i would like your response to what we said earlier, and i'd also like to ask you about the, the issue of the agricultural reforms, which as we have with we've talked about before, spot year long protests. i mean,

it's a pretty, has a large rural population right. so how is that going to play the thing for the pgp? first b, hitler torak casting aspersions on the people of the sir state saying they're not educated enough to differentiate. i think it is rather better. okay, treat to people of hooked up to this, please don't do it. if there is a narrative which any political party ah, less unleashes the people of the state, have wisdom to understand what is good for them and what is not good. see people of this country vote for the future. they vote for what they believe is beneficial to them. and if they were voted wrong, they voted against beach appeared places did, we'd be lost of an election. and the fact that the alternate is a better attempted sonata said that if be gibby wins, that the people of that state are uneducated and so big cannot differentiate. this

is the said absolutely wrong and acceptable and please do not denigrate the problem as well. if you just said, you, liddy, you, the said, you just said the same thing. all right, no, i didn't, i no, let me come now it might not let, let me come down to the so let me come not to be sure of agriculture reforms. it was a very ambitious program of this, sir. god lived to do agriculture reforms which would be beneficial to the farmers of this country because this country has a huge population of vaguely coaches in fact that the primary occupation of this country. now bitter miscommunication that there are communications which lead people to believe that these are inadequate laws which may not be too good for them . so after trying to persuade the people when it was seen that they're not getting persuaded, as the misgivings continue, we, we grew. that's it, i now looked up a dish has a lot, a lot of a huge agricultural population. so as it will be part of this directory because as

i said, that's it. but i am the occupational people of, of, of india hooked up with this education was largely confined to people in the vested yuki. and there was a particular community which was particularly in sized because of this because it had its bidding in the politics of holly on ours. no, this community has also seen the subsequent events after the withdrawal. and when the deserts will be out is i'm at least happy that but depend list here are conceding that in democracy the people are more fit on the job indexed by b tip is likely to win. ok, thank you for that. and any bell, if we are going to win, we're not going to win because the v delivered it reaches the other one because people taught future this more secured with as you say it has. but for their future, as you say, people well give their opinions at the power and that is the point of elections. i'd like to cross back. are the 2 i to lot. now, as the con,

i could see you wanted to get in there was something you wanted to add. i just want to make it very clear that individuals make the choices that they being in on here with question those choices. i in done those that are not they would need because an educated on it, but everyone has one right to analyze why those choices will eat in terms of what was the impetus for them. i just now only, i've been on the still reporting. i've met people who lost that immediate family members that has been there on that end in stock or taking it and i had met them earlier at the peak of this taking the 2. and then in so many was said that they're still angry. they're slow and even now they mean in that that hugely was, it is going to with the government, but they some of them being that we still continue to work for the b b was lane. so reasons for many reasons being ok, you know what, this is a little government, this is a guy in the resort and government and the identify adams are getting people and we are going to fight with that vendor quantities. and so we work for them,

and that is the toys, both individual as i'm making. so i think no one's here been just making about which is what is, but because it, what is it? and i hope one has a problem with that. all right, i thought some of that that's in discovered can, this is something about the covert very clearly because we are running out of time to very quickly go over ease of you, norma, which is a global phenomena. and this global phenomena played how looking to the lives of people all across the board. not just hooked up with dish. not only bigger system collapse than who took the ship collapsed every route, but had talked to the governments of the country, had talked to the people of this country that before. but for the inadequacy, when it came to recognition, then showed that you have such a huge regulation for growth that's been dismissed him this time, look at the collateral damage, but to just just make legible. so it is not how you were caught by surprise because the board was caught by surprise. but once you weren't aware of what is happening,

how you, what bank you thought back with such a mission that a silly with the people of this country. i super bowlens don't include not be governmental. so don't, don't say things which do not admitted a dos. and as you say, this is a pandemic that has affected the entire world and nations populations around the world are voting on their leaders responses, which i'm sure will be in people's minds at these state elections. we will have to leave it there for time. thank you. to all of our guest guests is at hand. you may dial to the k dodge and fatima. com and thank you for watching. you can see the program again any time by visiting a website, al jazeera dot com, a further discussion. go to our facebook page, says facebook dot com forward slash ha. inside story. you can also join the compensation on twitter. handle is at ha, inside story. for me, kim vanelle and the whole team here in doha bye for now. ah

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