This Is India

The world's most populous nation is going to the polls. Over the course of five weeks, 980 million people will cast their votes across 1.2 million polling stations. We look at Prime Minister Modi's popularity and the opposition election strategy.

India is in the midst of its six-week election period, where almost one billion people are eligible to cast a ballot - but what are they voting for? Half of the voting population are women, yet their representation in parliament reaches less than 15%. Will there be a change in these elections?

Low-wage workers are the backbone of the economy, yet they are a group of people we rarely hear from. About 28 million people in India rely on fishing for their livelihood, but fishermen here say it is becoming increasingly difficult to make ends meet. Will their votes make a difference?

Hundreds of millions have cast their vote in India - but what kind of a government will they be getting? How will it overcome the divisions of the campaign, deal with growing unemployment, and internationally, deal with an increasingly divided world?