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| Lok Sabha election 2024: World’s biggest poll kicks off as India begins voting - BBC News | Lok Sabha election 2024: World’s biggest poll kicks off as India begins voting - BBC News |
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| As millions of Indians head to polling booths, what is on their minds? | |
| A pre-poll survey conducted by think-tank CSDS-Lokniti found that unemployment, price rise and development topped the list of voters’ concerns. It said that 27% of respondents considered unemployment to be the most important issue for them - a huge increase from 11% in a similar survey before the 2019 election. | |
| The percentage of respondents concerned about inflation also rose by 19% compared with 2019. | |
| Only 8% of respondents voluntarily raised corruption and a grand new Hindu temple as important concerns. | |
| The temple to the Hindu god Ram, inaugurated by Mr Modi in January, was a longstanding poll promise of his party. It was built on the site of a 16th-Century mosque torn down by Hindu mobs in 1992, sparking deadly riots in the country. | |
| In the survey, more than 22% of the respondents said the temple topped their list of the action they "liked most" from the current government while nearly half said the temple's construction | |
| would help consolidate Hindu identity. | |
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