2024 Election Results: A primer on India’s four largest states
With weak partners, NDA’s performance in Uttar Pradesh, Maharashtra, Bihar and West Bengal has been dented by regional parties.
With weak partners, NDA’s performance in Uttar Pradesh, Maharashtra, Bihar and West Bengal has been dented by regional parties.
2024 election season saw the BJP highlighting Indian leadership of the G20, success of Operation Ganga, evacuation of Indians from war-torn Ukraine with the Opposition criticizing the incumbent on the stand-off in Galwan as well as the alleged occupation of around 2000 sq km of Indian territory by China (a claim disputed by the current government).
Problem lies in simplifying complex issues into binary oppositions, marginalizing moderate voices, and employing charged language to stifle nuanced discussion.
In an attempt to criticize post-modernism, one ends up realizing that they in fact have become post-modernists themselves.
Narayan passed on at his home in Patna on 8th October 1979, from the impacts of diabetes and heart disease
The Bharatiya Janata Party’s (BJP) rise in the Indian political circles has been well documented for a considerable amount of time. But in 2014, a resurgence of sorts caused BJP to come to power for the second time in over 16 years. BJP’s meticulous rise to power marks an era of the political right-wing dominating politics, not only in India but in other notable powers of the world as well.
For any political party to thrive in conditions as hostile as the Indian political climate, the presence of a strong, astute leader capable enough to tackle dynamic political conditions is very critical. And it is the absence of a strong figure capable enough to tackle and counter the rise of the BJP that is hurting Congress’ aspirations to rise to power.
I would like to make it clear at the outset that my objective is to engage with the ideas in the book, rather than providing a book review. I adopted a style to amalgamate sentences taken from the author and apply them to my own experience.
As Gandhi stood for Poorna Swaraj where citizens will have the collective right to have a sovereign state to realize their individual rights to freedom and also the state will not be coercive in the hands of any one particular class rather it will be the instrument of the whole society.
As Gandhi stood for Poorna Swaraj where citizens will have the collective right to have a sovereign state to realize their individual rights to freedom and also the state will not be coercive in the hands of any one particular class rather it will be the instrument of the whole society.
Their place is supposed to be on a throne guarded by sentinels who are on the constant search for dissenters, “rebels”, and “outsiders”. Their ideas are to be upheld and words to be obeyed. There must not lie any source of identification with the divine.
In India, a new brand of politics featuring ‘hate, hubris, and Hindutva’ has embarked to facilitate ‘social debacle’ by engineering religious strife by blatantly appropriating majoritarian principles.