- Friday, April 26, 2024
By: Sarwar Alam
Indian farmers voted overwhelmingly for prime minister Narendra Modi in the 2014 general election that swept him to power. He cannot count on them doing so again, as a crash in commodity prices and surging fuel costs stoke anger in the countryside. Four years ago, Modi’s Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) swept Uttar Pradesh, India‘s most populous state, winning 73 of 80 seats, as the rural poor – swayed by promises of higher crop prices – deserted the rival Congress party. Now, facing criticism for not improving living standards in the countryside, where 70 per cent of India‘s 1.3 billion people live, analysts…
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