The disconnect between assembly and Lok Sabha election results for BJP were not due to a momentary surge of nationalism but rather a larger structural shift in Indian electoral politics.
India's opposition-led states have engaged positively with the Centre, bringing out the true spirit of 'cooperative federalism' that Modi has talked about since 2014.
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A new study has shown that the profile of the first-time BJP voter in 2019 almost mirrors Indian society, with the singular exception of religious minorities.
Chief Election Commissioner Sunil Arora had written to the law minister reiterating a range of bond-related reforms that were pending with the government.
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None of Pakistan’s PMs has lasted 5 years. That the current PM has given Asim Munir 5 years shows that of all military dictatorships history has seen, Pakistan’s is most creative.
For all your analysis/paralysis, Modi didn’t alter any Center-State balance in terms of their respective welfare reach to the poor. All he did was to launch the old schemes firmly & just ensuring that they get delivered to the destination properly, the delivery part making all the difference between him & his predecessors. You must only credit him for choosing the right initiatives that impinge on the daily lives of common people such that they feel immensely served. States were doing their welfare schemes as before. Any scheme done without focus & attention tend to go astray with a lot of vested interests coming in the middle of deliverance – typical case being MNRGA under the administration of UPA. Going by your logic, states ruled by non BJP parties are able to retain their power only by being castiest or other such means & not based on how they serve their people for their livelihood. And you say Yogi is an exception & is popular because he is pursuing hardline hindutva, forgetting the fact that UP elections were won much before Yogi became CM & he is yet to face a general election for the state. UP was a case where BJP improved on their Loksabha performance without a CM face!
In all this, your mind deliberately wants to ignore the one most important aspect that propels Modi as a unique leader seen by people at large as worthy of their trust – that is he isn’t corrupt. Despite mammoth attempts to paint him as corrupt in Rafale deal with half knowledge & full maliciousness, Raul Gandhi had to bite dust when SC ruled clearly that the deal concluded by Modi Govt is less expensive on a comparable basis. Even though Raul was trying to go to town with allegations of Ambani being favored, the knowledgeable crowd always knew the nature & extent of off set contracts awarded. Even media could know easily but they chose to remain on surface to promote more fun & excitement dishonestly. Truth has a way of coming out & it came out to establish that Modi is blemishless. Tell me is it so easy to find a leader today who won’t do below the table deals? Couldn’t people be so happy & satisfied that they found one at last? Nothing kills people’s lives & livelihood more penetratingly than corruption at top levels & country had in the past seen corruption reaching sickening proportions. Do you even know why the inflation had been so low in the past 7 years despite oil prices not being slashed in line with international prices, putting more value in common man’s pocket for the income he earns? That’s exactly the result of absence of corruption. People are seeing for the first time a leader who stands for their livelihood & country’s interests. Isn’t it remarkable in itself that such trust must find a reflection at polls particularly when the alternatives remain so dangerous yet. Think beyond your bubble.
Like bone which is thrown to a dog so that it can keep it chewing in pursuit of juice, Modi’s presence and moving from strength to strength is itself a bone to chew for Nilanjan Sarkar kind. Modi gets repeatedly elected because people trust him. People trust him because he is seen to be honest to the core unlike the corrupt Gandhi family and moat importantly Modi delivers to the last man (antyodaya). Toilets, DBTs, Electricity, Gas cylinders, good roads, and now he is working on ambitious project of water through pipeline in every home. All this requires hard work, requires brain to think and work on ideas. A duffer who makes wild charges everyday and whose family kept the poor of this country poor for 60 years is not expected to be of any use to the aam admi of this country. Yes and Modi is also seen as someone who has aroused the dormant nationalism spirit in many. Plus removal of 370, his patience on Ram Mandir, getting a legitimate decision through the highest court of the land all have contributed to his no non sense image. The Nilanjan Sarkar’s may keep continuing chewing the bone for a long time. Modi will come back with a bigger mandate in 2024. And after him will be Yogi for next 25 years. Enjoy the heartburn Lutyenswallahs.
Well said!! The tukde gang needs a proper laundry wash to discard their brown British & Pakistani Indian attributes!! They should be happy that Indians & the BJP are giving them this chance unlike Congress & gang which killed opposition leaders & voters to sustain power and please their petty Islamic & Vatican vote banks!!
Who can forget Jan sang’s leader S.P Mookerjee’s murder by congress installed Islamic terrorist government in Kashmir?? Nehru even refused to do an inquiry and thus proved that he was directly responsible for this murder!! There are so many others instances where they did the same to patriotic leaders & carried out genocide of people; especially Hindus!!
Centralized benefits helped last mile delivery achieve 100%. Instead of intermediates eating away or going preference to their electorate. It’s a equitable delivery irrespective of caste, religion. Instead of celebrating the author is complaining. BTaw I am not a big fan of these dole outs. I wish BJP use this money to develop economy.
“While there is no clear evidence the schemes under Modi have been more effective, there is little question that the BJP engaged its impressive party machinery in advertising these schemes and building the perception that Modi directly delivered benefits to the voter (Aiyar 2019). “. This is the crux of this excessively long write -up. Voters are fools who despite receiving no benefits have given such a high approval rating to Modi. No need to read after this.
@Vish: Correct!! Only the commie/Jihadi Khan market gang knows it all!! Indian public; especially Hindus are stupid!!
1. Welfarist politics is here to stay inspite of whatever bhakts and other sundry supporters of the BJP have to say. For all of Modi’s pitch on market based economic policies, he is as committed to welfare as any PM before. The only time he actually speaks of market economics is when he has to sell an idea which may benefit his own billionaire benefactors. Small businesses have been thrown to the wolves as much as landowning farmers.
2. The last line is very revealing. Look at Shivraj Chauhan/ Yediyurappa trying to ape Yogi. This is the way the wind is blowing in the BJP for sure. Muscular religion based politics will be all the BJP has to offer. No wonder the economy is in doldrums. Worse days may follow if we continue on this path.
3. Two extremely damaging trends have been set forth by Modi himself.
a. His “Harvard vs hard work” remark has condemned education and expertise in public life. Talented, educated people with exposure to the wider world and ideas will hardly be interested in contributing to public good if politicians and leaders don’t value them.
b. His misuse our great Hindu religion for helping himself first to consolidate the CM chair in Gujarat and then acquire the PM chair in Delhi has put all of us in peril. Hindus will also be in danger of being labelled like Muslims as religious fanatics if we continue to let Modi use his illiberal divide and rule brand of politics to damage our country’s and our religion’s reputation in the wider world.
Hinduism is dharma based way of life unlike Islam & Christianity which are rather violent political ideologies marketed as religion!!
Ha!! Ha!! Muscular religion based politics will be all the BJP has to offer?? Really??
Ofcourse those were Hindus or perhaps Christians who created Pakistan for Islam & yet stayed in India to drink Gaumutra!
The genocide of Hindus by Jihadis through out history as lately in Kashmir or Pakistan/Bangladesh today & congress’s record of Hindu genocide is not proof enough that they have been worse than jungle pigs!!!
Of course Muslims never vote en bloc like cattle & brainless zombies!!
Interesting.
Now if the Congress can send the Gandhis packing, BJP would be in substantial trouble.
So much for India becoming an autocracy. The current political environment is just undergoing it’s natural cycles. Nothing is permanent.
yes it is cycles – like the way mentioned in the book “Fourth Turning”
If congress can stay in power for 6 decades despite their genocide of Hindus, BJP or another right wing party can stay in power for a century or more!! Creation of terrorist Islamic Pakistan & keeping most of those terrorist voters in India is a crime for which they haven’t yet paid a price!! If BJP was like congress & those Jihadis who have been killing Hindus since eons, Rahul Vinci Khan’s family would have been in graves eating poop!!
Dream on!! Congress was a British Christian, white supremacist creation!! It was as good as dead in 1947 had MK Gandhi not hacked democracy by bringing that UN-elected, incompetent Pakistani Nehru to power!!
Centralisation of welfare schemes worked fabulously. Look how bank accounts, toilets, gas connection, electricity connection penetration increased to 100 % in the last six years.
For all your analysis/paralysis, Modi didn’t alter any Center-State balance in terms of their respective welfare reach to the poor. All he did was to launch the old schemes firmly & just ensuring that they get delivered to the destination properly, the delivery part making all the difference between him & his predecessors. You must only credit him for choosing the right initiatives that impinge on the daily lives of common people such that they feel immensely served. States were doing their welfare schemes as before. Any scheme done without focus & attention tend to go astray with a lot of vested interests coming in the middle of deliverance – typical case being MNRGA under the administration of UPA. Going by your logic, states ruled by non BJP parties are able to retain their power only by being castiest or other such means & not based on how they serve their people for their livelihood. And you say Yogi is an exception & is popular because he is pursuing hardline hindutva, forgetting the fact that UP elections were won much before Yogi became CM & he is yet to face a general election for the state. UP was a case where BJP improved on their Loksabha performance without a CM face!
In all this, your mind deliberately wants to ignore the one most important aspect that propels Modi as a unique leader seen by people at large as worthy of their trust – that is he isn’t corrupt. Despite mammoth attempts to paint him as corrupt in Rafale deal with half knowledge & full maliciousness, Raul Gandhi had to bite dust when SC ruled clearly that the deal concluded by Modi Govt is less expensive on a comparable basis. Even though Raul was trying to go to town with allegations of Ambani being favored, the knowledgeable crowd always knew the nature & extent of off set contracts awarded. Even media could know easily but they chose to remain on surface to promote more fun & excitement dishonestly. Truth has a way of coming out & it came out to establish that Modi is blemishless. Tell me is it so easy to find a leader today who won’t do below the table deals? Couldn’t people be so happy & satisfied that they found one at last? Nothing kills people’s lives & livelihood more penetratingly than corruption at top levels & country had in the past seen corruption reaching sickening proportions. Do you even know why the inflation had been so low in the past 7 years despite oil prices not being slashed in line with international prices, putting more value in common man’s pocket for the income he earns? That’s exactly the result of absence of corruption. People are seeing for the first time a leader who stands for their livelihood & country’s interests. Isn’t it remarkable in itself that such trust must find a reflection at polls particularly when the alternatives remain so dangerous yet. Think beyond your bubble.
Like bone which is thrown to a dog so that it can keep it chewing in pursuit of juice, Modi’s presence and moving from strength to strength is itself a bone to chew for Nilanjan Sarkar kind. Modi gets repeatedly elected because people trust him. People trust him because he is seen to be honest to the core unlike the corrupt Gandhi family and moat importantly Modi delivers to the last man (antyodaya). Toilets, DBTs, Electricity, Gas cylinders, good roads, and now he is working on ambitious project of water through pipeline in every home. All this requires hard work, requires brain to think and work on ideas. A duffer who makes wild charges everyday and whose family kept the poor of this country poor for 60 years is not expected to be of any use to the aam admi of this country. Yes and Modi is also seen as someone who has aroused the dormant nationalism spirit in many. Plus removal of 370, his patience on Ram Mandir, getting a legitimate decision through the highest court of the land all have contributed to his no non sense image. The Nilanjan Sarkar’s may keep continuing chewing the bone for a long time. Modi will come back with a bigger mandate in 2024. And after him will be Yogi for next 25 years. Enjoy the heartburn Lutyenswallahs.
Well said!! The tukde gang needs a proper laundry wash to discard their brown British & Pakistani Indian attributes!! They should be happy that Indians & the BJP are giving them this chance unlike Congress & gang which killed opposition leaders & voters to sustain power and please their petty Islamic & Vatican vote banks!!
Who can forget Jan sang’s leader S.P Mookerjee’s murder by congress installed Islamic terrorist government in Kashmir?? Nehru even refused to do an inquiry and thus proved that he was directly responsible for this murder!! There are so many others instances where they did the same to patriotic leaders & carried out genocide of people; especially Hindus!!
Centralized benefits helped last mile delivery achieve 100%. Instead of intermediates eating away or going preference to their electorate. It’s a equitable delivery irrespective of caste, religion. Instead of celebrating the author is complaining. BTaw I am not a big fan of these dole outs. I wish BJP use this money to develop economy.
“While there is no clear evidence the schemes under Modi have been more effective, there is little question that the BJP engaged its impressive party machinery in advertising these schemes and building the perception that Modi directly delivered benefits to the voter (Aiyar 2019). “. This is the crux of this excessively long write -up. Voters are fools who despite receiving no benefits have given such a high approval rating to Modi. No need to read after this.
@Vish: Correct!! Only the commie/Jihadi Khan market gang knows it all!! Indian public; especially Hindus are stupid!!
1. Welfarist politics is here to stay inspite of whatever bhakts and other sundry supporters of the BJP have to say. For all of Modi’s pitch on market based economic policies, he is as committed to welfare as any PM before. The only time he actually speaks of market economics is when he has to sell an idea which may benefit his own billionaire benefactors. Small businesses have been thrown to the wolves as much as landowning farmers.
2. The last line is very revealing. Look at Shivraj Chauhan/ Yediyurappa trying to ape Yogi. This is the way the wind is blowing in the BJP for sure. Muscular religion based politics will be all the BJP has to offer. No wonder the economy is in doldrums. Worse days may follow if we continue on this path.
3. Two extremely damaging trends have been set forth by Modi himself.
a. His “Harvard vs hard work” remark has condemned education and expertise in public life. Talented, educated people with exposure to the wider world and ideas will hardly be interested in contributing to public good if politicians and leaders don’t value them.
b. His misuse our great Hindu religion for helping himself first to consolidate the CM chair in Gujarat and then acquire the PM chair in Delhi has put all of us in peril. Hindus will also be in danger of being labelled like Muslims as religious fanatics if we continue to let Modi use his illiberal divide and rule brand of politics to damage our country’s and our religion’s reputation in the wider world.
Hinduism is not a religion.
Hinduism is dharma based way of life unlike Islam & Christianity which are rather violent political ideologies marketed as religion!!
Ha!! Ha!! Muscular religion based politics will be all the BJP has to offer?? Really??
Ofcourse those were Hindus or perhaps Christians who created Pakistan for Islam & yet stayed in India to drink Gaumutra!
The genocide of Hindus by Jihadis through out history as lately in Kashmir or Pakistan/Bangladesh today & congress’s record of Hindu genocide is not proof enough that they have been worse than jungle pigs!!!
Of course Muslims never vote en bloc like cattle & brainless zombies!!
Interesting.
Now if the Congress can send the Gandhis packing, BJP would be in substantial trouble.
So much for India becoming an autocracy. The current political environment is just undergoing it’s natural cycles. Nothing is permanent.
yes it is cycles – like the way mentioned in the book “Fourth Turning”
If congress can stay in power for 6 decades despite their genocide of Hindus, BJP or another right wing party can stay in power for a century or more!! Creation of terrorist Islamic Pakistan & keeping most of those terrorist voters in India is a crime for which they haven’t yet paid a price!! If BJP was like congress & those Jihadis who have been killing Hindus since eons, Rahul Vinci Khan’s family would have been in graves eating poop!!
Dream on!! Congress was a British Christian, white supremacist creation!! It was as good as dead in 1947 had MK Gandhi not hacked democracy by bringing that UN-elected, incompetent Pakistani Nehru to power!!
Centralisation of welfare schemes worked fabulously. Look how bank accounts, toilets, gas connection, electricity connection penetration increased to 100 % in the last six years.