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BBC journalists will board the ‘India Election Train’ to cover elections
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To cover India’s general elections, the BBC has commissioned an “India election train”.
From April 25 to May 13, reporters from the BBC’s global news division will travel through India by train, investigating what Indians want from their general election and the key themes surrounding it.
Reporters from BBC World Service English, Hindi, Urdu, Tamil, Bengali, Somali, Swahili, World News television, Arabic TV, Persian TV and BBC.com/news will board the train and travel the length and breadth of the country. The journalists will broadcast stories to the world, across radio, TV and online.
The BBC has worked with Indian Railways to design a timetable for the project and the train will travel along the following route:
Delhi-Ahmedabad-
Mumbai-Hyderabad-
Bhubaneswar
-Kolkata--Patna-Allahabad-Delhi.
With the team visiting major population centres, as well as contrasting provincial towns and rural areas, the BBC’s global audience will get to hear the views of a wide range of Indian voters. Online users will be able to track the journey of the train through a special interactive map and a daily blog available on the BBC’s India Election webpage
www.bbc.com/india.
BBC reporters will investigate a variety of topics throughout their journey, with a key one being India’s response to the current economic crisis.
Other themes to be covered are the workings of the world’s largest democracy, India’s rich-poor divide, the role of religion and prominence of the entertainment industry — with recent successes including “Slumdog Millionaire”.
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