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Satish Kumar, Research Fellow, The Senator George J. Mitchell Institute for Global Peace, Security and Justice, Queen's University Belfast

Why India didn’t have the ‘climate election’ it needed, even amid a lethal heatwave

Waiting to vote in Assam, north eastern India, in May 2024. Hafiz Ahmed / shutterstock

The recent Indian election saw prime minister Narendra Modi re-elected for a third consecutive term, although his party, the BJP, failed to secure a majority in the lower house of parliament.

This election season was characterised by severe heatwaves, which have already killed at least 200 people and are likely to happen many times more often as the world keeps warming.

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