{"id":63560,"date":"2024-04-24T09:19:26","date_gmt":"2024-04-24T00:19:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2024\/apr\/24\/india-election-2024-share-your-thoughts-on-indian-general-elections"},"modified":"2024-04-24T09:19:26","modified_gmt":"2024-04-24T00:19:26","slug":"people-in-india-share-your-thoughts-on-the-election","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=63560","title":{"rendered":"People in India: share your thoughts on the election"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Guardian would like to hear from people in India on their thoughts on the 2024 general election, in particular young people who are voting for the first time<\/p>\n<p>The world\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2024\/apr\/19\/voting-begins-india-election-modi-widely-expected-to-win-third-term\">largest election has begun<\/a>, with nearly a billion people eligible to vote in India\u2019s marathon poll taking place over the next few weeks.<\/p>\n<p>The elections have been described by analysts as the most predictable polls India has held in decades, with <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2024\/apr\/19\/messianic-spell-how-narendra-modi-created-a-cult-personality\">prime minister Narendra Modi<\/a> and his BJP widely expected to win a third term in power. Amid a crackdown on the opposition, analysts and opponents have warned this could be the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2024\/apr\/09\/bjp-versus-democracy-india-opposition-alliance-cries-foul-as-election-nears\">most one-sided election in India\u2019s history<\/a><\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2024\/apr\/24\/india-election-2024-share-your-thoughts-on-indian-general-elections\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Guardian would like to hear from people in India on their thoughts on the 2024 general election, in particular young people who are voting for the first timeThe world\u2019s largest election has begun, with nearly a billion people eligible to vote in In&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1254,"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":[62,61,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-63560","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-india","category-south-and-central-asia","category-world-news"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63560","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\/1254"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=63560"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63560\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":63561,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63560\/revisions\/63561"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=63560"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=63560"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=63560"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}