For the next eight weeks BBC World’s Question Time India will be presenting a series of in-depth discussions of the major topics that lie at the heart of the Indian elections, involving some of the country’s most prominent politicians every Friday.

In this edition of Question Time India that will be broadcast on BBC World at 10 pm on Friday 2 April, presenter Dileep Padgaonkar leads a debate on the leading domestic issues that affect the Indian electorate.

The guests on the show will be: Pramod Mahajan - the General Secretary and Chief Spokesperson of the Bharatiya Janata Party, K Natwar Singh - the Congress Working Committee member and Rajya Sabha MP, Amar Singh - the General Secretary and Chief Spokesperson of the Samajwadi Party and Bhaskar Ghose - the newspaper columnist and the former Information and Broadcasting Secretary and Culture Secretary.