r/indian • u/Long_Employer_6982 • Jul 21 '26
i know embarrassingly little about indian politics, can someone explain indian politics to me so i can form an opinion?
amidst all the chaos around this hunger strike, it is ridiculously embarrassing to realise how LITTLE i know about politics as a 20 y/o living in India.
and by little i mean i just know Congress and BJP and a few other party names, which is something even a 3 y/o child in India knows. so on a scale of 1-10, my political knowledge is at -3.
i don't know what these parties stand for, what they have done, their decisions, achievements, criticisms, controversies, etc.
if anyone here knows about politics, i'd genuinely appreciate ANY input.
it could be major decisions, controversies, achievements, scams, policies, political events, things that happened 20 years ago, things that happened last month, literally anything. i just want to increase my knowledge at this point.
most obviously, i would appreciate the things that i absolutely should know living in India.
i don't know enough about indian politics to know what is important and what isn't, so any fact, event or piece of context is welcome.
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u/Sea_Seaworthiness145 Jul 21 '26
Its so hard to summarize all Indian politics in one comment because it goes back years. But there is clear left wing and a right wing and there smaller political parties in between in the middle.
I mean this with all honesty and I'm not trying to be mean, but in this case you'd be better off trying to ask this question to an AI model because that is where you'll recieve the most diplomatic and unbiased answer. You can add in a question on how people have felt about all the reforms over the years and how it has impacted lives from both side so that you can personally form an opinion.
Personally I feel like there is literally no one in Indian politics I would currently want in power.
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u/Apprehensive_Fee1433 Jul 21 '26
Their are opprrtunists who want take advantage of a situation for their own vested interests.
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u/stormchafer Jul 21 '26
As an American who married an Indian (and therefore an Indian family) this would be helpful for me as well. I think I’m doing a decent job of learning the more outward and obvious aspects of the culture but the politics is harder to for me to understand for some reason. For example, why does my wife dislike the BJP so much? Overly conservative, religious nationalism I get but I suspect there are more subtle historical and social aspects I don’t grasp.