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Unpopular opinion on Twitter, but here's what I found in my travel across Jharkhand and UP. People are always not voting for Modi because they are rabid right-wingers, fans of nationalism etc. Many are voting simply because their lives are better off now. (Thread)
Like Geeta Devi, who has always backed the JVM, in this village of Jharkhand. She got a free gas cylinder. She saw everyone else getting a free home, too. That's why, she like villagers around her, backed Modi. 
Like Motilal and his family in Gumla district, a Naxal-affected district in Jharkhand. They told me how they could never go out after dark, earlier--the violence was so bad. But, the Modi govt acted against Naxals. (Data proves this). They feel safe.
Or this hamlet of Dalit Malhars in Ramgarh district, who don't even have ration cards. They live in huts with twigs for walls. The poverty is crushing--one of them even died due to starvation. They've never received their due before. With Modi's schemes, they saw hope.
Sitting in our homes, it is easy to think that Indians made a choice between secularism vs communalism, hate vs love etc. Lets realise that having that choice is a privilege? Here, I tried to write about those who don't even that luxury of choice. indiaspend.com/in-backward-re…
