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kepler456 t1_j56cjf7 wrote

Reply to comment by AdComprehensive6588 in India: The Modi Question (2023) - BBC investigates Indian PM Modi's rise in the Hindu Right-Wing stratosphere and deadly Anti-Muslim and Anti-Sikh Politics [00:59:00] by CryMore36

International relations have nothing to do with local elections though. Most Indians are oblivious to what is happening outside their town and when they do they do not care because they have their own issues to deal with.

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kepler456 t1_j56d60r wrote

What makes you think I do not know this, but the average Indian voter does not care about this. If you do not know this, you do not know the major electorate of India.

EDIT: If people had common sense and the wisdom to think they would also know that the religion someone follows is irrelevant if you want to see progress in your locality and nation.

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AdComprehensive6588 t1_j56dfgz wrote

Just because they don’t care doesn’t mean they shouldn’t. Not caring about issues that directly or indirectly effect you is ignorant.

Religion heavily affects a nation, and severely.

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AdComprehensive6588 t1_j56dbhj wrote

They do though, foreign relations are extremely important to a countries prosperity and how that president/prime minister is viewed, no different then any other action a politician does.

All people have their own issues to deal with, but in a globalized world, what happens outside effects what goes on inside too

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kepler456 t1_j56e5sj wrote

Yes, but you are moving away from the topic at hand. The question was: Why is he voted for again and again and you said foreign policy.

Here is someone elses write up on the same topic: https://www.boell.de/en/2014/04/12/does-foreign-policy-matter-elections

It definitely matters, but only the elite think or discuss it. The majority are worried about putting food on the table and do not think critically. If we talk about what is important and what people should be thinking about we are in total agreement, but your response to the question asked is totally wrong in that aspect.

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AdComprehensive6588 t1_j56ef0m wrote

Not quite, the OP asked if he’s a good politician, I merely answered good things he’s done.

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kepler456 t1_j56gas4 wrote

OP asked: why is he getting elected, either ... or he is a good politician. You then go on to say: Modi has tried to maintain India’s diplomatic relations with other countries. You mention nothing else at all. You therefore use foreign policy as one of the biggest if not only reason he gets elected again. I go on to inform you that the electorate does not care about foreign policy in India.

As I said earlier, you are not wrong, but that is not the reason he is elected. I do not want to have a discussion or argument about it, I was just informing you in case you were not an Indian.

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dumbredditer t1_j5hdrpp wrote

Yeah but BJP keeps the population uneducated and poor. When you are worried if you'll have food at the end of the day or not, you don't really care much about international relationships

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