First of seven phases of the Indian national election is set to kick off on April 19

A reminder, the Indian government has failed to give visas to Al Jazeera’s correspondents to cover this story - therefore we are covering the election from outside the country.

Friday sees the start of the general election in India.
Voting in the world's largest democracy will last nearly six weeks.
Prime Minister Narendra Modi is seeking a third term.
But the ruling BJP is criticised for promoting a Hindu nationalist agenda, cracking down on the opposition and silencing the media.

Al Jazeera’s Minelle Fernandez reports.

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[Noname-wd]

I will vote for cong this year but first vote for BJP to check wheather evm is working or not ✅

[therock-rgwc]

How much al Jazeera will cry after namo 2024😂😂😂😂

[avinashraikwar]

Come to ground level and see the reality how much people support and love modi I'm challenging your whole team, stop propagating your propaganda, saying Hindu nationalism bla bla,

[rightwinger]

Indians are rejecting Dynasty congress,
When will Qatar reject Dymasty😂

[logicalguy]

hope qatar wiil also conduct fair elections

[nithin]

Radical Al Jazeera is trying hard than indian opposition parties to defeat Modi 😂

[subrahmanyansankaran]

Al Jazeera never talked about Minorities during Pakistan election. So if Minorities are Hindu and country is Islamic country, then they don't bother. They lecture India now. They also don't condemn Qatari Monarchy, no call of democracy there.

[pranavgandhar]

Come on guys, aljeera😂 cant do this in their own country 😂😂

[logicalguy]

what are other options ?
cpi- Chinese sympathizers and communists
congress- post independent dynasty of india
AAP- hypocrates
TMC- violent lady dictator (not a democrat)

[Humanbeing]

This is 2024 & still Qatar is not democratic country. Ruled by dynasty and sharia laws like isis. What a shame.

[GhoshSoumyadeep]

Dear Qataris, it's time for you to get rid of your aristocracy and dynastic form of imperial government, just like India got rid of its dynastic government in 2014. My Qatari brothers and sisters, it's time for you to ask for the right of choosing your own government. It's time for you to bring some democracy, good governance, secularism and mutual love and respect into your country. Otherwise your country would become insignificant in coming decades. But by choosing a government of people and throwing out the incumbent imperial government for dynasty could keep you in relevance for centuries. Wish you luck. Long live revolution. Inquilab Zindabad

[Leakage]

Try hard Al Jazeera Modi will came again

[richardsking]

Will vote for my favorite party, but first check the evm machine by clicking the button of bjp whether its working or not🤣😂😁😆❤

[shwetkumar]

0:11 Hindu majority metei and tribal kuki ?? Tell the religion of both the groups. Oh! than how your agenda will work.
Was a bias media, Every time you people try to portrait India with such false narratives.
You people are like a big black spot on media.

[antelopelol]

Depose dictator Modi and bring back democracy

[salajeetsan-nuqq]

Give money to congress party for election. Alljajira please help us to restore our democracy .

[SaeedRusheed]

But al ready set soft were you can press any button vote is going to kamal

[sanamrajchoudhurychoudhury]

Bjp is finishing the democracy of India