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RETURN TO PRISON. Arvind Kejriwal , Chief Minister of the capital Delhi and leader of the Aam Aadmi Party, addresses his supporters and party workers at the AAP’s headquarters before returning to prison in New Delhi on JSunday. Kejriwal, a top opponent of Prime Minister Narendra Modi said he would return to jail as his bail conditions demand after elections that were widely expected to result in another landslide victory for the Hindu-nationalist leader.
Kumar said that “642 million voters chose action over apathy, belief over cynicism and in some cases, the ballot over the bullet”, the commission said, with the commissioner adding that there were “no major incidents of violence”. Raqib Hameed Naik, from the US-based India Hate Lab, said they had “witnessed an unprecedented scale of disinformation” in the elections.
There were fake videos of Bollywood stars endorsing the opposition, as well as those purporting to show one person casting multiple votes.Others were far more sinister and sophisticated productions aimed to deliberately mislead.Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s Hindu-nationalist Bharatiya Janata Party came under fire for posts stoking sectarian tensions with India’s minority Muslim community of more than 200 million.
“The ruling party’s strategy of exploiting religious sentiments for electoral gain has not only undermined the integrity of the democratic process but also sowed dangerous seeds of division and hatred in society,” he said.
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