What would a third Modi term mean for India? | The Take

The world’s largest election begins Friday in India, with close to one billion registered voters. Narendra Modi, the incumbent, remains extremely popular, but his Hindu nationalist agenda has come at the expense of minority rights. So, what would a third term of Modi mean for India?
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- Sidharth Bhatia, Founding Editor, The Wire
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This episode was produced by Ashish Malhotra and Fahrinisa Campana with Kevin Hirten, in for Malika Bilal. Manahil Naveed and Catherine Nouhan fact-checked this episode.
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Alexandra Locke is The Take’s executive producer. Ney Alvarez is Al Jazeera's head of audio.

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Meanwhile qatari media silent on qatar monarchy😂😂😂

[@rajnarayansah01]

Toh kya hum log bhi wahi honae dae.

[@Yashab360]

​@@rajnarayansah01You are right I don't Support Congres but Modi is going crazy

[@Oceansta]

meanwhile whataboutery continues to flourish in andhbhakhts fantasy kingdom.

[@allahkre786baarrasulkithuk7]

@@Oceansta meanwhile you have admitted that qatar is not a democracy and is a hypocrite for their media to criticize india for not being a " Good" Democracy🤪🤪

[@allahkre786baarrasulkithuk7]

@@Oceansta hello andhjehadees🤪🤪 how's the madarsa classes today behind your back🤪🤪🤪

[@cmohannayak]

One sided story, doesn’t refer to how Hindus were oppressed by Congress and threatened

[@AmateurStoic]

How ? Until BJP governments didnt use religion in politics. BJP pretends to be hindu party, tricks hindus into voting for them. They use hindu votes and corporate money. No government should work for any religion

[@muhammedjaseemshajeef6781]

😂

[@magadh6386]

Congress will be gone soon. Congress-free India is the motto of every Bharatiya now. We should thank imported leaders who don't know anything about India like many in the world and are clueless why things are turning out this way 😂

[@muhammedjaseemshajeef6781]

@@magadh6386 nice joke

[@prajwal1341]

@@magadh6386 right

[@Dhruv_Rathee_ka_Baap]

As a Indian Muslim, I voted 4 Modi Today❤ Allah with Modi🎉🎉

[@godpeace3225]

What madhavi Latha BJP RSS 420 LIE 💩

[@javidharoonpkm2443]

😂😂😂 poor fellow

[@user-po6vp7rg9v]

Me too ❤

[@allahkre786baarrasulkithuk7]

A muslim sharia country media is criticizing another country which is a secular country😂😂

[@pmhs101]

So ? Why do you watch it then if it doesn't suit your narrative. You can watch your own channels to please yourself.

[@allahkre786baarrasulkithuk7]

@@pmhs101 as a citizen of india and a hindu too, I have a duty to expose the actions of enemies of india and also hindus, Which this sharia country channel is doing right now.

[@AliKhan-qm3xz]

​@@allahkre786baarrasulkithuk7 What is NIYOG and what is POLYANDRY Dung beetle

[@allahkre786baarrasulkithuk7]

@@AliKhan-qm3xz see fun times of rasul and allah in my pic🤪🤪

[@AliKhan-qm3xz]

​@@allahkre786baarrasulkithuk7You mean Brahma (father)and Saraswati (Daughter) and at the age of six husband and wife Smelly

[@abbakkachowta6326]

As Indian Christian, Modi is best thing to have happened to India. All his opponents are corrupt and dynasts. I pray that he continues to win for our better future.

[@hourbee5535]

We respect the choice of the Indian people and Al Jazeera not happy.

[@jambudvipi]

So true

[@massanddeepak8335]

A Hindu girl Neha Hiremath has been stabbed to death in Hubballi or Hubli, Karnataka by a Muslim boy Fayaz for rejecting his advances. Al Jazeera please a make video on this. The girl was stabbed in the college.

[@alienfromsaturn8909]

Modi 3.0 is loading.... Eagerly waiting to see the meltdown in al jazeera when they report the election results.

[@FutureAITrend]

Al Jazeera has found a new mass of people largest viewer demography , focus on your own country , " funded in whole or in part by the Qatari government" waooo

[@sunshine-by2kl]

Perfect recipe 4 disaster

[@allahkre786baarrasulkithuk7]

Typical hater😂😂😂

[@AgniveshArya]

Are you talking about Islam ?

[@deepakkumarsinghvt-dks4891]

Modi means 🇮🇳india India🇮🇳 means Modi

[@mdmubashiruddin4806]

C means modi 😂 Bc means modi😅😅

[@Yashab360]

No India is country jo hamesha rahega Modi is politician jo aaye jjaye rehte hai

[@crizzlyroom]

Biggest democracy in the world Qatar 😂😂

[@manash007]

Qatar already feeling the heat 😂

[@AstroRVe]

Fun fact : you will never see any news from Qatar in their al brazzers channel.

[@hmq3736]

Hahaha blame the criminal modi

[@taritdebnath6445]

Love you modi❤❤❤

[@lourdesjohn261]

As and Indian Christian,my entire family just voted MODI.your propaganda does not work any longer.

[@MBABLOGESHS]

This media is not deserved to criticise india and modi.....

[@vadirajsreedhara5075]

Modi will easily win 2024 and 2029 elections but face little setback in 2034 election due to his age problem

[@mdmubashiruddin4806]

Nice dream 😂😂😂 bro

[@MUKESHKUMAR-ex7ib]

😂😂😂😂😂😂😂. Great great andhbhakt. Kaha they baba ji

[@YS27122]

@@mdmubashiruddin4806jalo jalo, andhnamaazi aur jalo😂😂

[@sonusingh0505]

What about violence on Hindu during Congress Time? Remember babri or dhabri masjid?

[@AmateurStoic]

Explain those violence please ? Fyi, babri, its the hindu extremists who attacked the masjid and created a communal after

[@karanvaghela1796]

The Wire is independent but how much al Jazeera is independent 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😅

[@amanrupain3560]

Just like republic is😂😂

[@piku5637]

Normalize cooperatives and labour unions. Workers make the world run, workers should run the world. We can build a better🌎🌍🌏.

[@Pietervandebuurt]

Tell that to Russians, Venezuelans,Cubans etc.

[@soumengorai8346]

Whole world jealous of modi Asia 🌏superpower❤❤

[@RMat-lv1fh]

Polska pozdrawia Indie !!!

[@swastik-12]

What it means for india? Reestablishment of dharmic sphere of influence

[@KetoGo]

Third modi term means- Disaster in India

[@anupparchake2889]

Cry

[@21AMARENDRA]

Haha,101% modi will come back .Need to think for 2029

[@mowiththeflow4446]

That's what people like you said for the first two terms too 😂

[@humarashid3930]

Very true. I am from Pakistan but I wish modi must not be again pm.cause he is really selfish and their stands against for humanity either for hindu or other religions.i want to peace in every country.

[@rahulthaware9117]

cry

[@kaushalanand3480]

I am from India and I am very happy 😊 Modi is working very well

[@rahulthaware9117]

Modi has done lot of development work in India..🇮🇳 Voted for Modi…India is going big

[@aswindeepak7193]

Electric voting machine 😢 only deceied 😂

[@lifePaultheball]

Go and challenge it in court. With EVM Congress won Karnataka and Telengana, DMK won Tamilnadu, Mamata won Bengal. So, stop being stupid.

[@MD4564]

Corruption, Raping and Scamming.

[@moereese5254]

I would be more concerned if we didn’t have an overpopulation problem. He will probably help get India’s population down by a few hundred million or so.

[@avinashraikwar7700]

5:13, in karnataka state of india during ramnavmi so called Oppressed minority Community people came and forcefully ask to Hindu which are celebrating the ramnavmi to chant Allah hu Akbar, what about that, Why can't you are showing that news outlets there are several types of cases too like it's againSt your one sided perspective or propaganda.

[@royalforce346]

Why does always muslim where beaten in ur story when abdool go kboom from decades 😅

[@RMat-lv1fh]

Polska pozdrawia Indie❤

[@Sinner85]

Dziękuję bracie 😊❤

[@nishantdwivedi6805]

thanks man

[@AgniveshArya]

Aayega to Modi hi😂😂

[@babusalim]

You did not ask the real questions that should be asked to the Prime Minister, Modi is a Prime Minister who has never called a single press conference in the history of the country, while all our neighboring countries are rushing towards development, India is sinking into extreme poverty, unemployment, GDP of the country, is decreasing day by day, trying to divide people in the name of religion etc., education to get votes. It says communalism in some parts of India which is not there, he had a lot of questions to ask you but a good percentage of the media in India are slaves to Modi even during elections the international media is not allowed to enter India this is a time when an uneducated prime minister has shown how to expertly destroy a country for the first time in the history of India It is going on, but this parliamentary election, let us hope that the people who love India will answer him, and let us forget caste and race and work for the country, and pray that the country may remain forever, like a multi-colored flower in a garden.

[@manowarhussain5846]

I am from India

[@mg.f.9023]

‘India’s Income Inequality Is Now Worse Than Under British Rule, New Report Says. A new study from the World Inequality Lab finds that the present-day golden era of Indian billionaires has produced soaring income inequality in India-now among the highest in the world and starker than in the U.S., Brazil, and South Africa. The gap between India’s rich and poor is now so wide that by some measures, the distribution of income in India was more equitable under British colonial rule than it is now, according to the group of economists who co-authored the study, including the renowned French economist Thomas Piketty.’ - TIME, March 27, 2024

[@Bharat108._]

BJP again 🔥

[@jarosawbielski2301]

that you may walk in the way of the righteous and kept the paths of the righteous!

[@susantagiri4252]

It would more developed which one you not hope.. lets start cry bt we are busy with our intrest we dnt have time to hear you

[@GauravKumar-jx9xg]

Why all media try to phrase indian who is voting for him as bhakht or blind voter Every coin has two face… As indian we want a stable and majority government in our country gor investment and growth

[@hmq3736]

Becoz he is selling your property and you don't know😂

[@aftabahmad3136]

Ek jamana tha daku amiron ko loot kar garibon mein bantate the Aur aaj ke jamane ke daku garibon ko loot kar amiron ko bant rahe hain

[@mowiththeflow4446]

Accha.. toh ab tak garibon hona chahiye tha na?

[@orissa72]

Daku loot ke baantne wale ko abhi loot ki maal nahin mil raha hey. Isliye ghabraein huey hain.

[@Sinner85]

Al Jehrila's daily dose of Modi phobia 😂😂

[@MUKESHKUMAR-ex7ib]

Don't worry Aljajira! MODI ji is GOING to home, And never will see you again. India aliance ( secularism) will win ,true democracy will win

[@Yashab360]

❤❤❤❤ Jai Hind

[@lifePaultheball]

Source : local Madrasa in Karachi. 😂😂😂

[@AmateurStoic]

1st phase election over on april 19th. It shows votes are in favor of INDIA alliance and Rahul Gandhi. Rest of the election phases will follow the same trend

[@Sinner85]

😂😂😂😂 Alhumdildo 😂😂😂😂

[@lifePaultheball]

Source : local Madrasa in Karachi. 😂😂😂

[@orissa72]

Two anti Modi people discussing: one anti national and the other anti Modi propagandist.

[@vijaysingh-ni7pq]

Aacha laga.. your crying like a hor...😊😊😊😊😊

[@prabhashkumar4967]

Modi will lose this time

[@vivekchoudhary9301]

He will win easily this time also

[@mowiththeflow4446]

Stop dreaming 😂

[@pranjitdas9681]

Another term for Modi means no room for biased media channels like Al Jazeera. 😂

[@user-yo7fx2xn8m]

Better for now - the next 3-4 years-similar with Erdogan

[@abdulsattargodikat5920]

No Modi wave only heat wave 😂 Modi is loosing this time

[@mattdawes9698]

For u even judgment day is also coming everyday for the last 1400 years and we all know what happened lol.

[@vivekjoshi5529]

Good Jock 😂

[@metromaster7025]

Asking again is there a democracy in Qatar?

[@vijaysingh-ni7pq]

Take care of your...???? A....😅😅😅

[@javidharoonpkm2443]

Total disaster, then 😂

[@prajwal1341]

u wish

[@asutoshkumarkeshri4982]

Cry about it😂.

[@pragathikv9645]

He vl become dictator if he wins 3rd time

[@adilebrahim6425]

South India against modi

[@swastik-12]

Nah, south india gave 30 seats to modi in 2019 and 27 for congress, south India's just against bjp in assembly elections because bjp don't have any good leaders in south india

[@pratyushsaxena9891]

This time even south india is voting bjp 😂

[@kl10patth]

Jai Jawan Jai Kisaan🇮🇳💪👍Jai Jawan Jai Kisaan🇮🇳💪👍Jai Jawan Jai Kisaan🇮🇳💪👍Jai Jawan Jai Kisaan🇮🇳💪👍Jai Jawan Jai Kisaan🇮🇳💪👍Jai Jawan Jai Kisaan🇮🇳💪👍Jai Jawan Jai Kisaan🇮🇳💪👍Jai Jawan Jai Kisaan🇮🇳💪👍

[@AmateurStoic]

Rahul Gandhi as a leader is performing well now. Modi is the result of a well invested PR work and scripted acting.

[@hangroverreach6715]

no islam

[@shivamkumarmishra]

Modi will win this time

[@user-ys6dj9pj6e]

modi

[@user-hh2oj8qd9o]

Freedom for kashmir Kashmir is Pakistan 🇵🇰

[@CoderBoy2004]

Free Sindh and balochistan ❤

[@anupparchake2889]

Cry about it

[@mrmnj27]

FREE BALOCH

[@alienfromsaturn8909]

That slogan is outdated now. Try something new

[@Sinner85]

Freedom for Pakistan Pakistan is India's 😂

[@santanodcosta3360]

Desaster for India

[@akashdeep1537]

This guy who talk to you that are not know about the constitution

[@FutureAITrend]

[@Pankajyadav.08]

Modi 3.0 ❤❤😂

[@Katmulla]

Ola-hu-Uber

[@Katmulla]

Allhumdildo