With the 2024 election results and the dependence on allies, the BJP will find it difficult to remake India. At the end of this term, Modi will leave the Indian system pretty much as it is today.
No previous BJP election campaign has been so singularly centered around one individual: Modi's projection exceeded even Indira Gandhi's strategy of orienting the 1971 campaign around her personal appeal.
Narendra Modi is a loner in political terms. He decides what he wants to do and whom he wants to appoint to high office. And nobody can predict what he is going to say and when.
Sonia Gandhi promised to help the poor without ever threatening the rich. Rahul Gandhi has rejected that approach and gone back in time: to his grandmother Indira Gandhi's rhetoric.
Sam Pitroda can help Congress by pasting some strong, sticky tape all over his mouth and then spending the rest of the 2024 Lok Sabha election campaign in silence. He has done enough damage already.
Indian politicians expect civil servants to suck up to them. Ireland envoy Akhilesh Mishra's hit-job on Congress and his admiration of PM Modi will undoubtedly be noted by his political masters.
You could argue that some of the things Narendra Modi does or talks about are not meant to win the approval of elders at RSS. He is doing them with an eye on his own constituency.
The timing of Arvind Kejriwal's arrest lends credence to the AAP’s accusation that the BJP is using the central government’s agencies against its electoral opponents.
The moment they start claiming moral superiority and imposing their preferences on others, they take us one step closer to a totalitarian state where it's not just the right to free speech—what comes out of your mouth—but lunch and dinner as well—what goes into your mouth—that is taken away from citizens.
The dynamics between Europe and Russia have gone so south that mending fences looks like an uphill task—even as the US swings between sanctions and olive branches.
Centre for Science and Environment in new report makes case for rationalising GST on waste material, saying most informal operators can’t afford high tax & it also hinders recycling.
Standing up to America is usually not a personal risk for a leader in India. Any suggestions of foreign pressure unites India behind who they see as leading them in that fight.
Far from being shrewd Modi’s campaign has proved that he is desperate and insecure and wants power one way or the other. His concerns for India stand exposed as hollow when he can stoop to play one section of people against the other just to go 400 paar!!
Your write up analysing the aftermath of 2024 election results that Modi isn’t very different from politicians but just as biological is quite relevant and true. I am reminded of lat Congress veteran Acharya Kriplani that we politicians are a tribe howsoever big we may grow standing with our feet in sand and legs made of clay. Modi is everything and Bhagwan has send him for special task was an extreme.
I wish that your weekly show in the print..SHARP EDGE, videos are posted every week..i like your views the experienced analysis…
Hope it becomes regular..biweekly show
As someone who views things more through an economic than a political or identity related prism, had often wondered how economic hardship was not weighing on the prospects for a third term. How, in the face of inflation, unemployment, tepid household consumption, the Josh could still be so high. Well, the electorate has answered those doubts. The ruling party is indeed fortunate to have fallen just 32 seats short of a majority.
Far from being shrewd Modi’s campaign has proved that he is desperate and insecure and wants power one way or the other. His concerns for India stand exposed as hollow when he can stoop to play one section of people against the other just to go 400 paar!!
Other politicians would have indulged in reckless socialism during election year, but Modi didn’t. So he is a little different from other politicians.
Your write up analysing the aftermath of 2024 election results that Modi isn’t very different from politicians but just as biological is quite relevant and true. I am reminded of lat Congress veteran Acharya Kriplani that we politicians are a tribe howsoever big we may grow standing with our feet in sand and legs made of clay. Modi is everything and Bhagwan has send him for special task was an extreme.
I wish that your weekly show in the print..SHARP EDGE, videos are posted every week..i like your views the experienced analysis…
Hope it becomes regular..biweekly show
As someone who views things more through an economic than a political or identity related prism, had often wondered how economic hardship was not weighing on the prospects for a third term. How, in the face of inflation, unemployment, tepid household consumption, the Josh could still be so high. Well, the electorate has answered those doubts. The ruling party is indeed fortunate to have fallen just 32 seats short of a majority.