The marathon started by India on April 19 ends this Saturday with the last phase of voting in the national legislative elections. Nearly a billion Indians were called to the polls, with a third term for Prime Minister Narendra Modi as the main issue. Among the last to vote, the state of Punjab or the very poor state of Bihar.
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With our correspondent in New Delhi, Como Bastin
In the villages burned by the sun, many came from far away to participate in the vote. Manoj Kumar leads a tough life as a worker in Hyderabad, in the state of Telangana. He wants the re-election of Narendra Modi. “ In my caste, we all vote for BJP and Narendra Modi because he supports Hindus. And then he provides food rations to the poorest “.
The Prime Minister’s welfare packages are having success in Bihar, whose GDP per capita is close to that of Eritrea. Akhilesh Kumar, 26, has been looking for work for five years. “My father died and my mother survives through agriculture. She receives money from the Prime Minister, so we will vote for him,” he explains.
But some are not satisfied with this, like Vinod Mauria, an unemployed 33-year-old, who will vote for the Congress Party. “ Previously 10% of village residents received rations, now it is 80%. So this is the modern India we were promised? I don’t care if they build temples, I want development! »
Here, both the BJP and the Congress have allied themselves with local parties known to be corrupt. Bihar accounts for 40 of the 543 seats in the Indian Parliament and its results are being scrutinized and promise to be unpredictable.
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