{"id":63184,"date":"2024-04-09T10:00:37","date_gmt":"2024-04-09T01:00:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2024\/apr\/09\/bjp-versus-democracy-india-opposition-alliance-cries-foul-as-election-nears"},"modified":"2024-04-09T10:00:37","modified_gmt":"2024-04-09T01:00:37","slug":"bjp-v-democracy-indias-opposition-alliance-cries-foul-as-election-nears","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=63184","title":{"rendered":"\u2018BJP v democracy\u2019: India\u2019s opposition alliance cries foul as election nears"},"content":{"rendered":"

As crackdown on opposition members appears to ramp up, analysts say 2024 election could be most one-sided in India\u2019s history<\/p>\n

With less than two weeks to go before India\u2019s election begins, Arvind Kejriwal, one of the country\u2019s most prominent opposition leaders, would usually be out on the campaign trail. Instead, he is detained<\/a> in a 14ft by 8ft cell in Delhi\u2019s Tihar jail \u2013 said to be spending his days sweeping<\/a>, reading, doing yoga \u2013 and running Delhi\u2019s government from behind bars.<\/p>\n

Kejriwal, who has been the chief minister of Delhi since 2015, is not the only leader from his opposition Aam Aadmi party (AAP) to be locked up in Tihar. Alongside him is his former deputy chief minister, Manish Sisodia,, who has been incarcerated for more than a year. The former health minister, Satyendar Jain, has been there since May 2022.<\/p>\n

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As crackdown on opposition members appears to ramp up, analysts say 2024 election could be most one-sided in India\u2019s historyWith less than two weeks to go before India\u2019s election begins, Arvind Kejriwal, one of the country\u2019s most prominent opposition l…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":649,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[62,433,61],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-63184","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-india","category-narendra-modi","category-south-and-central-asia"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63184","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/649"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=63184"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63184\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":63203,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63184\/revisions\/63203"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=63184"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=63184"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=63184"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}