(18 Apr 2024)
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Ghaziabad, Uttar Pradesh - 6 April 2024
1. Various of Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi waving from atop a car as crowds shower rose petals on him; Uttar Pradesh state Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath (in saffron) accompanying Modi
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Ghaziabad, Uttar Pradesh - 15 April 2024
2. SOUNDBITE (English) Nilanjan Mukhopadhyay, author of Modi biography:
“Mr. Modi’s ultimate goal is to strengthen Hindu nationalistic politics more and more and more. And eventually reach a stage when ideological contestation ceases in India and there is no opposition to any of the problematic, you know, initiatives of the government.”
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New Delhi - 14 April 2024
3. Modi greeting people with folded hands at the launch of his party’s election manifesto ++OVERLAYS AUDIO IN SHOT 2++
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Ghaziabad, Uttar Pradesh - 6 April 2024
4. Modi supporters wearing face masks with his photograph, dancing to music
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Ghaziabad, Uttar Pradesh - 15 April 2024
5. SOUNDBITE (English) Nilanjan Mukhopadhyay, author of Modi biography:
“I would say that barring for economic issues, Mr. Modi is completely an RSS person. His entire politics, his entire programs, which he has pursued as prime minister, they've all been motivated by the RSS thinking and the RSS ideology.”
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Ghaziabad, Uttar Pradesh - 6 April 2024
6. Modi supporters wearing face masks with his photograph, dancing to music ++OVERLAYS AUDIO IN SHOT 5++
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Gandhinagar, Gujarat - 1 April 2024
7. Modi poster outside the Bharatiya Janata Party office ++OVERLAYS AUDIO IN SHOT 5++
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Ahmedabad, Gujarat - 4 April 2024
8. Various of a market place, Muslim women in veils walking
9. SOUNDBITE (Hindi) Mahmood Bhai Khatri, 65, businessman:
“In the coming elections the BJP is going to win, because the entire machinery (for election) is theirs. Whoever you vote for, it is BJP who wins, and Gujarat is their laboratory.”
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Ghaziabad, Uttar Pradesh - 6 April 2024
10. Various of Modi’s supporters carrying flags and posters, shouting slogans
STORYLINE:
Hindu nationalism, once a fringe ideology in India, is now mainstream.
Nobody has done more to advance this cause than Prime Minister Narendra Modi, one of India’s most beloved and polarizing political leaders.
And no entity has had more influence on his political philosophy and ambitions than a paramilitary, right-wing group founded nearly a century ago and known as the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS).
“We never imagined this,” said Ambalal Koshti, 76, who says he first brought Modi into the political wing of the RSS in 1968 in their home state of Gujarat.
“He is not only the head of the country but a leader of the world today,” Koshti said.
Modi's spiritual and political upbringing from the RSS is the driving force, experts say, in everything he's done as prime minister over the past 10 years, a period that has seen India become a global power and the world’s fifth-largest economy.
At the same time, his rule has seen brazen attacks against minorities — particularly Muslims — from hate speech to lynchings. India's democracy, critics say, is faltering as the press, political opponents and courts face growing threats.
And Modi has increasingly blurred the line between religion and state.
At 73, Modi is campaigning for a third term in a general election, which starts Friday.
He and the ruling Bharatiya Janata Party are expected to win.
He's challenged by a broad but divided alliance of regional parties.
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