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BJP Vs. Congress - A Conundrum

The 2019 Election is turning out to be a close competition between two old rivals - the BJP and the Congress, with the former most probably having their Prime Ministerial candidate as Narendra Modi and the latter, Rahul Gandhi; one, a staunch Hindu nationalist who displays fascist like tendencies and the other who attempts to find a distinction between INR 6,000 a year and INR 500 a month. Let's go back five years to 2014 when elections were looming around the corner. I was not as invested into politics as I am now but I remember every second person telling me that they would be voting for the BJP, purely for the charismatic leader, Narendra Modi, who had promised to revolutionalise India on modern grounds. I was not wrong. The BJP won 55% of the seats. Fast forward to today and every other person is not praising Modi and talking about re-electing him, at least publicly. However, everyone is at a quandry whether or not to vote for someone who has done a certain amount o