As the date approaches, the BJP led by Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi is enlisting the support of more female voters. However, the issue of sexual violence in India has once again been in the spotlight of the international community when an influencer with dual Brazilian and Spanish citizenship was taken by seven local men** while traveling in the eastern Indian state of Jharkhand.
According to Spain's **4** road, those involved face life in prison. At the same time, the victim couple said on social platforms on the same day that it was just a single incident and hoped that the outside world would not leave a bad impression of India.
According to a recent report by Reuters, in order to get India 4With the support of 7.2 billion female voters, Modi has spared no effort to install piped water, electricity and sanitation facilities for Indian households. In general, Indian women are more willing to vote for the main opposition Congress, in part because the Congress party has the country's first and only female prime minister, Indira Gandhi, while the BJP is rooted in Hinduism and favors men in politics and is not popular with women.
However, in recent years, the BJP has launched a series of initiatives to improve the quality of women's lives. The Water Revolution aims to bring tap water to every household in India by 2024. In terms of energy, Modi has slashed gas for his home use, saying the move is to make it "more convenient for women to cook".
The BJP** has also responded to Modi's call for a number of schemes to provide cash subsidies to poor women. At the end of 2023, Bang will launch the "Dear Sisters" program, which will provide an annual income of 2 to 2 for those aged 21-60Rs 50,000 (Rs 100 is about 8.)7 RMB) for women up to 1,000 to 1,250 rupees.
Regarding Modi's measures to "curry favor" with women, some critics believe that the status of women in India has not been significantly improved, and the actual help of subsidies is very limited, and some polls show that Indian women still have doubts about Modi's commitment to improving women's rights, and the problem of women facing sexual violence has intensified in India.
According to the records of India's National Criminal Records Department, in 2012 there were 2440,000 crimes against women, a number that jumped to about 42 in 202180,000 cases means that the total number of such crimes has increased by 42 in nine years96%。