In India’s Silicon Valley, voters only want one thing from 2024 elections: water
As India continues to vote in the national elections amid a heatwave, people in the southern city of Bengaluru are focused on a singular issue: the paucity of water.
The city, known as India’s Silicon Valley due to its IT industry, has been grappling with a water crisis so severe that some days there isn’t enough to take a shower or even flush a toilet.
However, the crisis has received scant attention during the ongoing election campaigns.
The Karnataka state government, run by the opposition Congress party, has downplayed the severity of the problem and instead accused prime minister Narendra Modi’s Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), its chief opponent, of hyping the crisis to create unrest ahead of the elections.
. Bengaluru votes on 26 April, in the second of the seven
