More people than Mexico’s population will be newly eligible to cast ballots on Friday ( Apr 19 ), compared to 130 million young adults between the ages of 18 and 22 when the results of the polls open.
Four first-time citizens who were too young to cast ballots in the 2019 primaries were reportedly asked by AFP to identify the problems that they felt were important.
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Mumbai college student Abhishek Dhotre, 22, said he was angry with” the social conflict that is seen all throughout India” as a result of the president’s muscular Hindu nationalism.
The government of Prime Minister Narendra Modi has elevated India’s largely Hindu faith to the forefront of social discourse.
That has caused concern for Muslims and other minority about their chances in the ostensibly liberal nation.
Still, with India’s economy growing at a breakneck pace, overtaking former colonial ruler Britain as the world’s fifth-largest in 2022, Dhotre wants Modi and his Bharatiya Janata Party ( BJP) to win again.
” With the circulation of creation, system and all that’s going on, I would prefer the current state to be,” he told AFP.