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In the name of various reforms for example NJAC reform or RBI reform when it needed money after DeMonitzation, BJP govt wanted role to control these and other democratic institutions. BJP is using its power of advertising funds and threat of IT & CBI to tame press, TV and other media so that these act as govt’s sales & marketing division. In the name of digital data privacy, a new Data Protection Bill gives autonomy to the government. This is ‘Orwellian, it is the Big Brother looking at you’ said retired Justice Srikrishna and ‘bill is not in line with the draft’. We know what is result of electoral bonds as practically all money is flowing to BJP and there is no transparency. We can list more things; main point is BJP-RSS are doing these are more to set up permanent Hindu Rashtra.
Let us not kid ourselves Hindu Rashtra will be a permanent system for electoral authoritarianism. India as Hindu Rashtra will be a county where Hindutva authoritarians will always be elected democratically. In Hindu Rashtra elections will appear to be free but will be always unfair with the help of crony capital, civil services and judicial who forgotten that their oath is to constitution. In the Hindu Rashtra Muslims, Christians & all those Hindus, Buddhist etc. who disagree with them will be second class citizens obviously with lesser rights. Indian government will look more like Chinese or Russian government when it comes to functioning.
So big question is how to counter these negative forces? India cannot depend on opposition political parties. Only safe and democratic option is to educate masses on implications of every decision and how to fight for rights, after all democracy is supposed to be people’s movement and not just based on political parties. It is not easy but people like you can set up platform where all those who believe in constitution, human rights and economic progress can take lead in making people aware and also put sprit back in the Indian democracy. This new democracy platform will be like what free university on-line courses also known as MOOCS (massively open online courses and accessible to all for free) did to expensive class room based university education. This will be like new freedom struggle but to setup distributive & participative democratic system. I believe you can do bigger & more things than you are doing currently. Can you and others create a mass education platform accessible through various on-line and off-line media?
Dear friend of YY,
Please try and limit your comment to a length lesser than the article on which you are commenting.
Cheers.
The opposition is day dreaming already, forgetting, or ignoring the fact that there are still FOUR and a HALF years of this regime left. There is plenty of time to stop, look and proceed for the NDA. It is the opposition that will find it very hard (practically impossible) to sustain and maintain its mythical ‘unity’ and come together in 2024. Except for Rahul Gandhi himself, NO other opposition leader believes that Modi can be replaced by Rahul tomorrow, or next week. In this long interval to the next elections, it is Rahul who will find it impossible to keep the Congress together.
Mumqin bhi hai, aur Namumqin bhi. A lot depends on how the Opposition creates synergy and cooperation. In the meantime, the people who matter should read Harsha Bhogle’s Facebook post and make fantastic use of the blessings the Indian people have showered on them.
Dear Yogendra,
Here are my thoughts.
In the name of various reforms for example NJAC reform or RBI reform when it needed money after DeMonitzation, BJP govt wanted role to control these and other democratic institutions. BJP is using its power of advertising funds and threat of IT & CBI to tame press, TV and other media so that these act as govt’s sales & marketing division. In the name of digital data privacy, a new Data Protection Bill gives autonomy to the government. This is ‘Orwellian, it is the Big Brother looking at you’ said retired Justice Srikrishna and ‘bill is not in line with the draft’. We know what is result of electoral bonds as practically all money is flowing to BJP and there is no transparency. We can list more things; main point is BJP-RSS are doing these are more to set up permanent Hindu Rashtra.
Let us not kid ourselves Hindu Rashtra will be a permanent system for electoral authoritarianism. India as Hindu Rashtra will be a county where Hindutva authoritarians will always be elected democratically. In Hindu Rashtra elections will appear to be free but will be always unfair with the help of crony capital, civil services and judicial who forgotten that their oath is to constitution. In the Hindu Rashtra Muslims, Christians & all those Hindus, Buddhist etc. who disagree with them will be second class citizens obviously with lesser rights. Indian government will look more like Chinese or Russian government when it comes to functioning.
So big question is how to counter these negative forces? India cannot depend on opposition political parties. Only safe and democratic option is to educate masses on implications of every decision and how to fight for rights, after all democracy is supposed to be people’s movement and not just based on political parties. It is not easy but people like you can set up platform where all those who believe in constitution, human rights and economic progress can take lead in making people aware and also put sprit back in the Indian democracy. This new democracy platform will be like what free university on-line courses also known as MOOCS (massively open online courses and accessible to all for free) did to expensive class room based university education. This will be like new freedom struggle but to setup distributive & participative democratic system. I believe you can do bigger & more things than you are doing currently. Can you and others create a mass education platform accessible through various on-line and off-line media?
Best,
Your friend
Dear friend of YY,
Please try and limit your comment to a length lesser than the article on which you are commenting.
Cheers.
The opposition is day dreaming already, forgetting, or ignoring the fact that there are still FOUR and a HALF years of this regime left. There is plenty of time to stop, look and proceed for the NDA. It is the opposition that will find it very hard (practically impossible) to sustain and maintain its mythical ‘unity’ and come together in 2024. Except for Rahul Gandhi himself, NO other opposition leader believes that Modi can be replaced by Rahul tomorrow, or next week. In this long interval to the next elections, it is Rahul who will find it impossible to keep the Congress together.
I think BJP’s 2019 landslide win is attributable to Balakot strike. Once that effect wore off ….
Another strike could happen.
Mumqin bhi hai, aur Namumqin bhi. A lot depends on how the Opposition creates synergy and cooperation. In the meantime, the people who matter should read Harsha Bhogle’s Facebook post and make fantastic use of the blessings the Indian people have showered on them.