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BJP. Hindutwa,
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BJP. Hindutwa,
India,
Nancy Powell,
Narendra Modi,
North South Divide,
Putin
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Everyone agrees that the self
appointed next Prime Minister of India, Narendra Modi, is a fragmenting
character. Did the US Ambassador to India, Nancy Powell see the writings on the
wall and decided to throw in the towel because Washington won’t see?
Can the United States and the
rest of the world, already beleaguered by a divisive and aggressive Putin in
Europe, deal with a North South divide of a strong India, a guarantee against aggressive
China, on top of all other kinds of splintering Narendra Modi seems to have
abetted so far?
To list out the divisions Modi
has achieved so far, critics can point out his hype of Gujarat Model
Development, his professed Urban support base, his orchestrated cyber follower
base, the blind admiration of young techies he has mustered and numerous other
factors which the rest of India lack, as Modi’s own versus the rest of India
which divide the fabric of India in some
undesirable way.
“Give me three hundred seats and I will empower
the nation” Narendra Modi , who has so
far been refused a US visa on account of his role in 2002 religious riots in
Gujarat, has stated in a pre election speech.
It is the political ambition of
Narendra Modi beyond India which should get everyone, especially the United
States, worried. Like Vladimir Putin, who in his quest for asserting his
authority to the world seems to be
blowing up Russian passion and nationalism, Narendra Modi, seem to inflame old
Dravidian and anti Hindi feelings and accelerate a North South divide,
basically weakening India.
Dictators had often orchestrated some legitimate ploy like
getting ‘elected’ to a leadership position of some apparently democratic
body or a less dignified coup of another
dictator, to appoint themselves to
positions of absolute power.
What Narendra Modi has done to be
his party’s Prime Ministerial candidate, though ostensibly democratic, is
nothing less.
By staging a sort of Internal
coup upon his own mentor and PM hopeful L K Advani and other senior leaders,
Modi has simply usurped the power and authority he needed to push ahead with his campaign to grab the
power in Delhi and decimate the party.
Modi, in his quest to fulfil his
ambition, has split his own party, which is clear from the squabbles before and during the distribution
of seats and selection of constituencies which were enforced upon grumbling party seniors and other candidates by Modi and
his henchmen.
Modi, with the religious ideology
of Hindutwa, a fact which has been held against him right from the beginning of
his career, is a polarising leader and poses the greatest threat of division
for the secular India along religious
lines, irrespective of whether he wins the election.
His control of BJP seems complete
as the campaigners of the party now say Narendra Modi indeed is the BJP.
However, the repercussions of his winning the election on the rest of India’s
political system, which seems to be heading for a divide will define the course
and place of India in the world in the coming decade.
Judging from various opinion
polls, the hugely funded and managed
campaign of the investors to install Modi in New Delhi seems to be succeeding,
abetted by a wrongly placed enthusiasm of India’s new generation of voters who
believe Modi will deliver them all western comforts they crave for.
However the abundance of western
money which has flown in to India in the past couple of decades has accelerated
different parochial ambitions, which were present and manifested from time to
time even when India was really a poor nation.
Many of these regional parties
have been asserting their authority over the government in New Delhi by causing
all sorts of obstructions inside and outside the parliament, making the
governance of India by a central government all but impossible.
India in 2014, with the breakup
of the southern state of Andhra, and the ascend of regional parties in other
states like West Bengal and Tamil Nadu, is indeed more fragmented than in the
previous elections but not subscribing to the Hindutwa ideology as much as the
BJP would have liked.
Though many of them have aligned
with the BJP in previous governments, there is a very strong feeling among
these regional parties that Modi’s intentions are really sinister, which has
forced them to come out openly against
Narendra Modi and any post poll alliance with him.
This means even if Modi and his
BJP can muster an absolute majority in the parliament and form a constitutional
government based on the seats they gain from the Hindi speaking northern India,
in reality, Modi will be faced with the same obstructionist environment as the
present government, rendering any big ticket development promised by Modi virtually impossible.
Ascendancy of an aggressive Modi
will crystallise this anti Modi sentiment to a formidable force making
governance all but impossible. If Modi
and the BJP fail to get a majority, despite the surveys, the same forces might
form a new government, but the reality
of the North South divide will remain
and perhaps acquire clearer shape
and character.
Either way, India as a secular
Union of people with different language and culture is losing credibility and
clout which it deserves and for which it freedom fighters fought for
generations. Whether the rest of the world will gain or not will be a matter of
history.
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ReplyDeleteMost of the part portray prejudice. Only if they by force try to implement Hindi as National language the South North issue erupt. I don't think anybody will dare to do that.
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