Staggered voting in the general election is currently in progress across India, with results to be declared on May 23. The BJP war chest has allowed it to unleash a massive amount of advertising on social media and send Modi and party officials crisscrossing India to campaign. The money puts the BJP in an extraordinarily powerful position, even over logistical issues like how to get its leaders to election rallies. “This war chest gives the BJP significant advantages,” said Milan Vaishnav, director of the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace’s South Asia programme. Pawan Khera, a Congress spokesman, said this was “turning out to be the most unequal election,” but did not provide specifics.

Source: Dhaka Tribune May 01, 2019 14:26 UTC