(15 May 2024)
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ARCHIVE: New Delhi – 11 April 2024
1. Wide of New Delhi’s historic Jama Masjid as Muslims offer Eid prayers
2. Various of Muslims offering prayers
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New Delhi – 2 May 2024
3. SOUNDBITE (English) Ali Khan Mahmudabad, political scientist and historian, Ashoka University:
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"Muslims are sort of, in a sense, facing this shift, it is not, I think, complete yet, but this gradual shift from what was already marginalisation to exclusion.”
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Ahmedabad, Gujarat – 3 April 2024
4. Various of people at marketplace
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Malappuram, Kerala – 23 April 2024
5. Various of drummers beating drums to Bharatiya Janata Party’s (BJP) only Muslim candidate M Abdul Salam campaigning
6. Salam waving to people
7. SOUNDBITE (English) M Abdul Salam, Candidate for BJP:
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“Bharatiya Janata Party permits accommodation of all, the entire people, not (just) the Hindus. That’s the advantage of this Bharatiya Janata Party. It’s a totally, you know, inclusive party, open party.”
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Varanasi, Uttar Pradesh – 13 May 2024
8. Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi waving to supporters from a vehicle at an election campaign roadshow
9. Wide of crowd of supporters cheering Modi at an election campaign roadshow
10. Modi waving to supporters who throw flower petals towards him
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New Delhi – 2 May 2024
11. SOUNDBITE (English) Ali Khan Mahmudabad, political scientist and historian, Ashoka University:
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“What the BJP in a in a sense has done is that it has really shifted the centre of Indian politics. The opposition has had to accommodate for the shift to the right, which has meant that they have to walk this very tricky rope in a sense, between, continuing to fight for their traditional constituencies, including Muslims and also understanding, I think, on the ground that their own voters potentially, might not vote for them anymore, the non-Muslim voters, if they are seen to be too vocally pro-Muslim.”
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ARCHIVE: New Delhi – 31 March 2024
12. Various of rally by opposition bloc
13. Mid of Congress leader Rahul Gandhi on stage addressing supporters
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Hyderabad – 30 April 2024
14. Asaduddin Owaisi, leader of All India Majlis-e-Ittehad-ul-Muslimeen party walking surrounded by his supporters
15. Supporters holing party flags walking
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Ahmedabad, Gujarat – 3 April 2024
16. Various of people at marketplace
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New Delhi – 8 May 2024
17. SOUNDBITE (Hindi) Muhammad Saad, 27, cab driver:
“I feel that if any (Muslim) person is elected to the parliament, then at least I will have this hope and faith that they will raise their voice for us over there.”
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ARCHIVE: Agra, Uttar Pradesh – 7 May 2024
18. Woman voting
STORYLINE:
The political power of India’s 200 million Muslims is declining in the world’s largest democracy.
Tensions between Hindus and Muslims in India are not new, but they have gotten worse under Prime Minister Narendra Modi, whose ruling Bharatiya Janata Party touts a Hindu-nationalist ideology.
And with Modi seemingly on the cusp of a third five-year term, the outlook for Muslim politicians — and citizens — is bleak. This year’s vote will be decided in June.
Ever since the BJP began its rise as a political force in the mid-1980s, the proportion of Muslim lawmakers in parliament and state legislatures has shrunk.
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