{"id":63611,"date":"2024-04-26T10:00:24","date_gmt":"2024-04-26T01:00:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2024\/apr\/26\/india-election-locals-fear-modis-bjp-will-polarise-voters-in-fight-for-key-state"},"modified":"2024-04-26T10:00:24","modified_gmt":"2024-04-26T01:00:24","slug":"india-election-fears-that-modis-bjp-will-polarise-voters-in-fight-for-key-state","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=63611","title":{"rendered":"India election: fears that Modi\u2019s BJP will polarise voters in fight for key state"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Muslims worry Modi\u2019s party will rely on familiar tactics of drawing on religious divisions as it battles Congress to to retain seats in Karnataka<\/p>\n<p>The sun scorched the carpeted car park at Mudipu Junction outside Mangalore in Karnataka state as volunteers arranged rows of red plastic chairs and placed mounds of biryani and fruit on the table for a public <em>iftar<\/em>, the moment Muslims break their fast during Ramadan.<\/p>\n<p>But this was no ordinary iftar. India is in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2024\/apr\/19\/voting-begins-india-election-modi-widely-expected-to-win-third-term\">the midst of a general election<\/a> during which prime minister Narendra Modi and his Hindu nationalist Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) are seeking a third term, and factionalism is rife.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2024\/apr\/26\/india-election-locals-fear-modis-bjp-will-polarise-voters-in-fight-for-key-state\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Muslims worry Modi\u2019s party will rely on familiar tactics of drawing on religious divisions as it battles Congress to to retain seats in KarnatakaThe sun scorched the carpeted car park at Mudipu Junction outside Mangalore in Karnataka state as volunteer&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4207,"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":[62,3091,433,61],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-63611","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-india","category-india-elections-2024","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\/63611","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\/4207"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=63611"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63611\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":63612,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63611\/revisions\/63612"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=63611"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=63611"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=63611"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}