# The exit polls of #India’s elections indicate that the #BJP is expected to win the largest-ever election in history. Let’s take a look at the Party’s track record after a total of 16 years of ruling the South Asian country.
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At the head of the right-wing party is Prime Minister Narendra Modi, who is running for a third consecutive term and claims to be “chosen by God.” When he came to power in 2014, he promised to transform the country into an economic powerhouse. Instead, he has transformed it into an economic nightmare.
A recent report by the World Inequality Lab revealed that India’s income and wealth inequality have become among the highest in the world.
What the BJP is most known for, however, is its mainstreaming of the Hindutva ideology. Through Hindu supremacy, the BJP and its supporters are waging a bloody war against the country’s largest minority, Muslims.
What BJP authorities refer to as “bulldozing justice” is a policy of destruction of homes, businesses, or places of worship, through targeted campaigns of hate, harassment, and violence, rendering hundreds of Muslims homeless.
Furthermore, the second half of last year alone saw a sharp 62% increase in hate speech events targeting Muslims compared to the first half. About 75% of those events took place in BJP-ruled states.
In 2019, Modi removed the special autonomy of India’s only Muslim-majority state, Jammu and Kashmir and rules the occupied territory with an iron fist. Kashmiris have experienced everything from mass killings, forced disappearances, torture, rape and sexual abuse to suppression of freedom of speech and bans on religious gatherings.
Also in 2019, Modi’s administration passed a controversial anti-Muslim citizenship law which excludes Muslim migrants. Protests opposing the law were met with some of the worst sectarian violence in decades, leaving dozens, mostly Muslims, dead.
Modi’s role in India’s long history of anti-Muslim violence goes beyond his ascent to Prime Minister in 2014. Back in 2002, under the leadership of Modi, Gujarati state authorities enabled the killing of around 2,000 Muslims in one of the most brutal episodes of Hindu-fascist violence.
With the BJP likely securing a majority in parliament, will Modi’s reelection mean that even darker days lie ahead?
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