2024 India Election Report
On April 19, 2024, voters in India begin to head to the polls for national elections that will stretch into May. The incumbent BJP faces a new opposition alliance, again under the leadership of the Indian National Congress. Will the new opposition alliance maintain cohesion in the campaign’s closing stages? What will the election signal about the overall health of democracy in the country? And how does the BJP, a party of Hindu nationalism, mobilize women into its political project? See our pre-election podcast with Drs. Anirvan Chowdhury and Taha Rauf to put the campaign in context, and our Pre-Election Briefing from CAD Undergraduate Research Assistant Wade McGuire for background analysis of the election.
