One of India’s political parties is taking election promises to a new level — announcing that it will give 80,000 brides $500 worth of gold. The promise was made by the Prime Minister Narendra Modi's Hindu nationalist Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) currently governing India’s northeastern state of Assam. The BJP is facing a tough re-election campaign ahead of the state elections scheduled to be held in May, with local media citing high unemployment and low incomes. The brides eligible to receive the gold will come from poor families and will get 11.66 grams of the yellow metal, totaling about $530, Assam’s Finance ... (full story)