Evidence shows budget handouts may not get Modi or BJP any more votes than they would have got otherwise. Samajwadi Party lost 2017 UP polls despite the sops.
On 4 April 1968, Bansgaon MP Molhu Prasad delivered a speech in the Lok Sabha on the atrocities against the Scheduled Castes and their negligible representation despite reservation.
Germany’s erstwhile Christian Democratic Union govt, led by Angela Merkel, prevented sale of small arms to police forces in states they perceived had ‘bad human rights record’.
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.
An apt analysis of the little impact of doles on the electoral politics. A correct assessment. But it lost its way when you wrote, ” Will this budget help the BJP in subduing farmer and middle-class dissatisfaction and controlling the narrative? Maybe. Will it be a game-changer and swing the election in its favour? Highly unlikely.” Here is the issue of subjectivity.
The farm insurance scheme seems to be fizzling out. Universal Medicare for 50 crore Indians has been launched with a modest budget of 2,000 crores and is already running short of money, with tiny coverage. These initiatives cannot swing a national election.
Bashing comments / reactions to Sandip Roy are mostly from males. Surely, his effort did not go in vein!!
An apt analysis of the little impact of doles on the electoral politics. A correct assessment. But it lost its way when you wrote, ” Will this budget help the BJP in subduing farmer and middle-class dissatisfaction and controlling the narrative? Maybe. Will it be a game-changer and swing the election in its favour? Highly unlikely.” Here is the issue of subjectivity.
The farm insurance scheme seems to be fizzling out. Universal Medicare for 50 crore Indians has been launched with a modest budget of 2,000 crores and is already running short of money, with tiny coverage. These initiatives cannot swing a national election.