India’s current government is led by the Bharatiya Janta Party or the BJP. It is also the country’s largest national party. It was formed in 1980, though its origins lie in the Bharatiya Jana Sangh, which was founded in 1951. The Jana Sangh was closely associated with the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS), a Hindu nationalist organization that continues to play a significant role in shaping the BJP’s ideology.
The party first came to power at the center in 1996, but its government lasted only 13 days. It returned to power in 1998, forming a coalition under the National Democratic Alliance (NDA), with Atal Bihari Vajpayee as Prime Minister. His tenure saw India conducting nuclear tests in 1998, economic reforms, and a focus on infrastructure development. However, the BJP lost power in 2004 to the Congress-led United Progressive Alliance (UPA).
The BJP made a historic comeback in 2014 by securing 282 seats out of 543 in the Lok Sabha, with Narendra Modi as India’s prime minister. Major policy changes include the revocation of Article 370, which granted special status to Jammu and Kashmir, the Citizenship Amendment Act (CAA) 2019, and the Muslim Women (Protection of Rights on Marriage) Act, 2019 that criminalized triple talaq in India.
The government’s handling of several protests and crises has faced widespread scrutiny. The 2020–2021 farmer protests, which were sparked by the controversial farm laws that were later repealed, drew significant public attention, with criticism directed at the use of force and the management of the situation. Similarly, the government’s response to the 2019 Citizenship Amendment Act (CAA) protests raised concerns over its handling of dissent, particularly the use of force. The BJP’s management of the COVID-19 pandemic also attracted criticism, especially regarding the lack of transparency around the death toll, shortages of medical resources like oxygen cylinders, and inadequate preparedness during the second wave.
Additionally, the ongoing inter-tribe conflict in Manipur, which erupted in 2023, has faced criticism for the government’s perceived failure to take adequate action, with accusations of poor crisis management and insufficient intervention in addressing the escalating violence.
Sushma jee is a great leader. Even she has not got support from PM & her party, but she fighted alone. Lady Iron after Indiar a Gandhi. No one in BJP is much greater than her. PM should speak and support her.
What is the reason for the targetting? Internal party politics or defying the don’t speak without sanction from the top code.
If the later is true, does it mean that all those vicious comments that many newly elected BJP members like the Tripura CM’s comment are sactioned from the top?
Then that means these are not isolated but a strategy to condition Indians to more and more divisive politics. A sort of salami tactic?
Worrying and scary.
Ms. Swaraj is a tough politician. That was some guts she displayed in taking on Sonia Gandhi in the then Congress stronghold of Bellary, Karnataka. She began speaking kannada by the end of that campaign.
She deserves kudos for her first and later action.
Pray tell the world about Mr Vikas Mishra. Why the officer doing his duty in passport office had to be transferred in an hour by the EAM secretary? Everyone here benefitted Madam Tanvi Anas Siddiqui by getting passport in an hour, Sushma ji by becoming victim and playing to gallery but not Mr Vikas mishra. Such a shame.
Prof PK Sharma, Freelance Journalist,Barnala (Punjab)
I am really amazed to find that the menace of TROLLING is being tossed like a “shuttlecock” here and there now when Mrs.Sushma Swaraj Union External Affairs Minister has fallen a prey to this evil !
Undoubtedly, the music which the Minister had to face at the hands of trollers is very unfortunate and worth flaying ! Has not this incident really opened up our eyes shaking us from our deep slumber ?
Ironically, there are many big question marks before the system in wake of this particular episode ?
Were we not earlier on adopting a silent posture towards this vice ?
Is this malady a new one ?
Is it not astonishing, why there is a lot of hue and cry ” now ” because the mental agony of a VIP Minister is concerned ? Has not the mental agony been in vogue and prevalent in the Indian Society for quite long ? Had the media persons, the politicians, jurists, leaders and so on not been facing the onslaught of this malady ?
Does not the Indian Constitution provide that there is right to equality ? Should not have we felt concerned equally for those too who had to endure the mental agony triggered by the trollers so far ?
Why Mrs. Sushma Swaraj and her family did not bother to raise their voice against this when many others had to pass through a severe
ordeal prior to them? In this context, an American Nobel Laureate Mark Twain’s thought-provoking words cross my mind,
” The best way to cheer yourself up is to cheer somebody else up.”
Has the nation not already been grappling with manifold problems of sensitive nature ?
Will not it be worthwhile to learn the art of living amidst problems in Narendra Modi regime?
Should not like many others, Mrs. Swaraj too see this trolling episode as a bad dream in the sweet and fanciful era of
Acchhe Din(Fine Days) foreseen by our Honorable PM Modi in the year 2014 ?
Prof PK Sharma, Freelance Journalist
Pom Anm Nest,Barnala(Punjab)
Whatever the logic of argument that minisyers in Govt.would be taxed to defend Ms.Swaraj,what about party leaders?Further,PM tweets (& is appreciable)birthday wishes etc.(as per his likes/dislike),so a single one liner of disapproval sends d message.As not supporting has also send d message.Its all about d kind of culture leaders wants to build.