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2024 is the year of elections. According to one estimate just under 50% of all the people on earth live in countries where by December 31st there will have been a national vote. In terms of population size there are none bigger than the six week exercise that got underway last Friday. The world鈥檚 biggest democracy - India - has gone to the polls and prime minister Narendra Modi is hoping 鈥� perhaps expecting 鈥� to win a third term. He first came to power in 2014 and since then fears about 鈥渄emocratic backsliding鈥� have been growing. So how concerned about that should we be?

Step inside The Briefing Room and together we鈥檒l find out.

Guests:

Yogita Limaye, 麻豆社's South Asia Correspondent
Rohan Venkat, editor of 鈥淚ndia Inside Out鈥� newsletter
Louise Tillin, Professor of Politics in the India Institute at King鈥檚 College London
Chietigj Bajpaee, senior research fellow for South Asia at Chatham House.

Production team: Rosamund Jones and Ben Carter
Editor: Richard Vadon
Production Co-ordinator: Gemma Ashman
Sound engineers: Hal Haines and Sarah Hockley