Voting for elections 2024 phase 6 has begun in six states and two Union Territories. Over 110 million voters will determine the outcome for 889 candidates competing for 58 seats in this phase.

The 2024 general election manifestos from major national political parties, including the BJP and the Congress, emphasise urban governance, reflecting a shift towards addressing the challenges of India’s rapidly urbanising landscape.

As people vote in the fifth phase, which will set the tone for the final stretch of the election, Modi revisits personal grievances and outdated promises. Meanwhile, a rogue wave is rising — its impact will be known in 16 days.

Climate change is hardly an election issue for Indian voters. Political parties, too, lag behind in integrating climate agendas into their election campaigns, unlike their European counterparts.

Elections 2024 Phase 5 | Today, voters in 49 constituencies across six states and two Union Territories are casting their ballots in the fifth phase of the Lok Sabha elections.

With India positioning itself as a global player, the microscope falls on PM Narendra Modi’s foreign policy and on how foreign policy fares in the world's biggest democracy.

Indian cinema and cinematic fiction has become the convenient way of ‘correcting’ historical frictions, especially where facts are inconvenient

The business elite funds Indian politics and elections in return for economic favours or for securing favourable policies for their industry.

...and the unlooked for spectacle of the all-powerful BJP scrambling in defence | Elections 2024

The hollowing out of parliamentary democracy in India can only be checked and reversed by a successful electoral challenge to the Modi personality cult.