Young Indians bought new hope & optimism of Brand Modi in 2014. Now they're confused & angry as BJP government turns out to be Indira-era Congress, plus a cow.
Only way to defeat Modi-BJP in 2019 could be through local battles against strong leaders, as it makes psephological sense despite ideological contradictions.
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A theme has not yet emerged for BJP & people see lack of a contest, which makes it unexciting. For all these reasons, 2024 is turning out to be an unexpectedly theme-less election.
Manifold reasons are responsible for this change of political fortunes in a span of one year !
Unexpected manadate of the masses in 2014 in favour of NaMo led BJP made the duo of NaMo- Amit Shah turn arrogant and
complacent. Power went to their heads constraining them to live in the fools paradise that they are invincible and there was no challenge to their leadership for pretty long ! This encouraged and emboldened them to go in for reckless, rash and whimsical unilateral anti-people decisions !
What to talk of learning and going in for course correction in wake of their past mistakes they did not deem it fit at all to admit mistakes ! The Delhi, Bihar Assembly Polls (2015) ,Gujarat Assembly Polls (2017), Karnataka Assembly Polls(2018) and Byelections(Lok Sabha and Assemblies) in the nation did stun BJP springing too many surprises manyatimes contrary to NaMo-Shah expectations but both did not like to come out of their ivory shell of arrogance !
The biggest weaknesses of NaMo-Shah have been the Congress, Mrs.Sonia Gandhi- Mr.Rahul Gandhi family ! NaMo-Shah have been the best well-wishers and dedicated devotees of Congress- Mrs.Sonia Gandhi family. So passionate is their love and affection for the Congress and the family that they cannot help remembering both day and night !
I have observed that Prime Minister Modi though is a leader of BJP but especially he is so fond of Congress and the family that both haunt him every now and then ! Even after taking over the reins of the nation in May, 2014 he never believed in himself as the Prime Minister but always behaved and conducted himself as a leader of opposition as if still in the opposition !
Mr. Shekhar Gupta is quite up to the mark when he remarked, ” He must defeat himself.”
History Mr.Shekhar is going to repeat itself in 2019 too because NaMo does not need enemies because he is his own worst enemy !
When NaMo sans any doubt has decided to bury himself under his own weight then who can help him ?
It is a foregone conclusion that Congress and Sonia family will ultimately prove to be NaMo’s POLITICAL HAMARTIA !
As PM ppl like to see a likable and endearing gentle face.Modi comes out as just opposite to these images.Indira was authoritarian but was like kind mother like to poorest of poor reason why she bounced back.In Modi lacks human values like compassion and looks very crude for a PM at times.
Revival of congress is only media creation, 1) In Gujarat even after more than 20 years rule and so many issues on hand they could barely increase 10-20 seats. 2) In Karnataka only after 5 years rule they loose their majority and had to compromise and given up CM ship to a party having half of congress seat. 3) In recent election they only won convincingly in one small state, In MP even after 15 years of BJP rule they could not win it comfortably. The problem with India is we cant afford to loose congress as a strong opposition, result of this is if there is no Gandhi at the top position in congress it will disintegrate and with the Gandhi at the top India will suffer as we can see how good Rahul is. Gandhi will not allow any younger leader like Sachin or Sindhia to take a lead role as it will bring them in limelight.
It would have been good, why did it happen? Yes, you have written Yogi and demonetization were major mistakes of Modi, but what’s more than that for the changing equation? Yet, Modi remains a bait for the punters though he is appearing defensive. Unusual.
Whichever date one puts to it, the salad days are over. Actually, Delhi in Feb 2015 was the first electric shock. 67 out of 70 for AAP was unimaginable, and the inability to coexist constitutionally with a tiny rival showed that cooperative federalism was just a cliche’. Bihar in September that year was a much bigger jolt, something which Nitishbabu’s cynicism managed to undo. So even in the first three, relatively placid years, there were chinks in the armour. A somewhat somnolent media also contributed to an overarching narrative that did not fully reflect ground realities. Difficult to believe that ordinary citizens were celebrating demonetisation with Diwali sparklers. 2. More fundamentally, delivery was falling short. Consider the CMs – barring Maharashtra – who were nominated to such important responsibilities. The mismanagement of the economy. Foreign policy / national security not lighting up the night sky with magnesium flares. The grime of anti incumbency was accumulating. If Rajasthan and Madhya Pradesh we’re close, full marks to doughty CMs, not found elsewhere. Politics has been seen too much as the process of fighting and winning elections, forming governments, preferably after a victory, but even in its absence. What is in it for ordinary citizens, the poor of course, also the middle class as that gent from Pondicherry asked in anguish, has been largely lost sight of. 3. 2019 will be an honest referendum of the incumbent’s performance and delivery over five years, That is how it is, always, all over the world. The rules of elective democracy did not change with one simple majority in May 2014.
It has been apparent for quite some time that Mr. Gupta has been disappointed with the current dispensation in power . Yet he is against the opponents of Mr. Modi. He struggles with himself quite often in this regard and he also goes back to give examples which really amount to “whataboutry”. For example \1) He refers to Congress success in Gujarat to sacrificing the ideology in case of Congress to balance their tactics.2)In cut the clutter he in essence added to the clutter by pointing out the leaders` lack of attack on an individual journalist. But he had nothing to say about the channels which, instead of the role more as an adversary of the powers that be have been apologists and have been in absurd adversarial role against the opponents of Modi. The interview with ANI seems to be an attempt to mask its nature but it was in essense as sycophantic as that of Goswami or Navika Kumar for that matter. No mention of the price that journalists have had to pay for opposing whether it is Thapa, Ghosh, Sardessai, or Bajpai.
BODY-LINE bowling seems in effective now.
BJP now has to invent a new trick. Perhaps VALUE DELIVERY to people may be an option.
CM Nitish kumar who unconditionally surrendered has also claimed his pound from BJP.
TIME TO RETURN TO DRAWING BOARD WITH HANDICAPS, IMPORTANT PARTIES WILL STAY AWAY.
Prof PK Sharma, Freelance Journalist,Barnala (Punjab)
Manifold reasons are responsible for this change of political fortunes in a span of one year !
Unexpected manadate of the masses in 2014 in favour of NaMo led BJP made the duo of NaMo- Amit Shah turn arrogant and
complacent. Power went to their heads constraining them to live in the fools paradise that they are invincible and there was no challenge to their leadership for pretty long ! This encouraged and emboldened them to go in for reckless, rash and whimsical unilateral anti-people decisions !
What to talk of learning and going in for course correction in wake of their past mistakes they did not deem it fit at all to admit mistakes ! The Delhi, Bihar Assembly Polls (2015) ,Gujarat Assembly Polls (2017), Karnataka Assembly Polls(2018) and Byelections(Lok Sabha and Assemblies) in the nation did stun BJP springing too many surprises manyatimes contrary to NaMo-Shah expectations but both did not like to come out of their ivory shell of arrogance !
The biggest weaknesses of NaMo-Shah have been the Congress, Mrs.Sonia Gandhi- Mr.Rahul Gandhi family ! NaMo-Shah have been the best well-wishers and dedicated devotees of Congress- Mrs.Sonia Gandhi family. So passionate is their love and affection for the Congress and the family that they cannot help remembering both day and night !
I have observed that Prime Minister Modi though is a leader of BJP but especially he is so fond of Congress and the family that both haunt him every now and then ! Even after taking over the reins of the nation in May, 2014 he never believed in himself as the Prime Minister but always behaved and conducted himself as a leader of opposition as if still in the opposition !
Mr. Shekhar Gupta is quite up to the mark when he remarked, ” He must defeat himself.”
History Mr.Shekhar is going to repeat itself in 2019 too because NaMo does not need enemies because he is his own worst enemy !
When NaMo sans any doubt has decided to bury himself under his own weight then who can help him ?
It is a foregone conclusion that Congress and Sonia family will ultimately prove to be NaMo’s POLITICAL HAMARTIA !
Prof PK Sharma, Freelance Journalist
Pom Anm Nest, Barnala (Punjab)
As PM ppl like to see a likable and endearing gentle face.Modi comes out as just opposite to these images.Indira was authoritarian but was like kind mother like to poorest of poor reason why she bounced back.In Modi lacks human values like compassion and looks very crude for a PM at times.
Revival of congress is only media creation, 1) In Gujarat even after more than 20 years rule and so many issues on hand they could barely increase 10-20 seats. 2) In Karnataka only after 5 years rule they loose their majority and had to compromise and given up CM ship to a party having half of congress seat. 3) In recent election they only won convincingly in one small state, In MP even after 15 years of BJP rule they could not win it comfortably. The problem with India is we cant afford to loose congress as a strong opposition, result of this is if there is no Gandhi at the top position in congress it will disintegrate and with the Gandhi at the top India will suffer as we can see how good Rahul is. Gandhi will not allow any younger leader like Sachin or Sindhia to take a lead role as it will bring them in limelight.
It would have been good, why did it happen? Yes, you have written Yogi and demonetization were major mistakes of Modi, but what’s more than that for the changing equation? Yet, Modi remains a bait for the punters though he is appearing defensive. Unusual.
Whichever date one puts to it, the salad days are over. Actually, Delhi in Feb 2015 was the first electric shock. 67 out of 70 for AAP was unimaginable, and the inability to coexist constitutionally with a tiny rival showed that cooperative federalism was just a cliche’. Bihar in September that year was a much bigger jolt, something which Nitishbabu’s cynicism managed to undo. So even in the first three, relatively placid years, there were chinks in the armour. A somewhat somnolent media also contributed to an overarching narrative that did not fully reflect ground realities. Difficult to believe that ordinary citizens were celebrating demonetisation with Diwali sparklers. 2. More fundamentally, delivery was falling short. Consider the CMs – barring Maharashtra – who were nominated to such important responsibilities. The mismanagement of the economy. Foreign policy / national security not lighting up the night sky with magnesium flares. The grime of anti incumbency was accumulating. If Rajasthan and Madhya Pradesh we’re close, full marks to doughty CMs, not found elsewhere. Politics has been seen too much as the process of fighting and winning elections, forming governments, preferably after a victory, but even in its absence. What is in it for ordinary citizens, the poor of course, also the middle class as that gent from Pondicherry asked in anguish, has been largely lost sight of. 3. 2019 will be an honest referendum of the incumbent’s performance and delivery over five years, That is how it is, always, all over the world. The rules of elective democracy did not change with one simple majority in May 2014.
It has been apparent for quite some time that Mr. Gupta has been disappointed with the current dispensation in power . Yet he is against the opponents of Mr. Modi. He struggles with himself quite often in this regard and he also goes back to give examples which really amount to “whataboutry”. For example \1) He refers to Congress success in Gujarat to sacrificing the ideology in case of Congress to balance their tactics.2)In cut the clutter he in essence added to the clutter by pointing out the leaders` lack of attack on an individual journalist. But he had nothing to say about the channels which, instead of the role more as an adversary of the powers that be have been apologists and have been in absurd adversarial role against the opponents of Modi. The interview with ANI seems to be an attempt to mask its nature but it was in essense as sycophantic as that of Goswami or Navika Kumar for that matter. No mention of the price that journalists have had to pay for opposing whether it is Thapa, Ghosh, Sardessai, or Bajpai.
BODY-LINE bowling seems in effective now.
BJP now has to invent a new trick. Perhaps VALUE DELIVERY to people may be an option.
CM Nitish kumar who unconditionally surrendered has also claimed his pound from BJP.
TIME TO RETURN TO DRAWING BOARD WITH HANDICAPS, IMPORTANT PARTIES WILL STAY AWAY.