massive victory of the BJP

The massive victory of the BJP in the 2019 election has demonstrated that, it has  succeeded in influencing and consolidating  the majority community in all the North Indian and North East states towards  their Hindutva agenda . It looks as though that, for these state’s voters , joblessness, demonetisation ill effects , slow down of industrial sector’s performance , grievances of the farmers , GST complications, ill treatment of minorities in several ways , curbs on freedom of expression , murders of intellectuals ,journalists and whistle blowers , slow down of the economy , interference in the functioning of the constitutional bodies etc., are not matters of importance. It seems that, these voters  want   Modi back  to implement primarily the hard core Hindutva agenda. May be they want saffronisation of all the social , economic and political institutions. We wonder, what impact it is going to have on the principles of secularism, federalism and pluralism which had been practiced in India and enabled the  people to live with harmony and peace so far.

Inclusive India

The first page report on the “Muslim youth beaten up in Gurugram “ and the details on the nature of FIR filed is only a sample of what is likely to follow in several parts of this nation, especially in North India. This incident  stand testimony to many unpleasant incidents that are likely to happen due extreme happiness of the cadres of the ruling party over  the  high level success in the recently concluded National election. This is going to be the  “Inclusive India ‘’, a proclamation thundered into our ears in the last three days .Brutal strength in parliament  is dangerous in a democracy especially when the main opposition is reduced to a  week position . Hence, there is an urgent need to revive the Congress party. It is because, this age old party stands for , holistic democracy, Gandhian secularism  and federalism based national unity.  Their revival is the need of the hour since,we do not have any other National party with similar ideologies .These ideologies are meant for uniting the people and the states and not dividing. A strong opposition is good for the ruling party too, since it will check them during excesses committed due to arrogance of power and protect them from unpopularity wave during their term in office.