Indians prefer whom – BJP, Congress or
some other party?
The Congress faces an uphill task. After the terrorist attack
in Pulwama, it is playing it safe as usual — it has no narrative and is simply
buying time for the hysteria to fade out. The party looks confused. The
Congress is worried about a Hindu consolidation. The Congress continues with
secularism as a social policy, which sections of the majority Hindu community
began to perceive more and more as an appeasement to Muslims rather than as
legitimate citizenship benefits.
The Congress’s ‘politics of accommodation’ took a beating
when the Other Backward Classes first moved to regional parties and later to
the BJP. In due course, the Congress became more and more dependent on Muslim
and Dalit votes to win elections.
Prime Minister Modi built his credibility both by
highlighting the failures of the Congress as well as appropriating the
liberal-progressive critique of those failures and packaging within that an
aggressive majoritarian politics. Dynasty became a symbol of old patronage politics and Muslim
appeasement.
Modi’s campaign style and rhetoric reflect this deep trust
that people have invested in him. There may be contradictions in his speeches,
but people continue to justify all of this in the name of nation and religion.
Congress might now focus on various small struggles for basic
survival, including the struggles of safai karamcharis, Dalits, Adivasis, those
displaced by development projects, internal migrants, students, and others.
These are unheard voices on the fringes of society, and the Congress might try
to make them heard.
Social consensus has shifted to the right, across castes and
classes in India. The RSS has made this possible in a diverse society such as
India through its rugged survival in the margins for almost a century. What we
are witnessing today are the fruits of that labour. It is through such
sustained work that it has captured the public imagination.
Congress is nothing but a family business held up by immoral
and unworthy individuals, pretending to be "seasoned and senior"
politicians. They are just pawns at the court of the corrupt relics of the
dynasty.
Congress has
to STOP thinking about the dynasty and imposition of some ignorant princeling
as its head. He has to go as people do not trust him do not relate with him.
Moreover, he seems to be happily ignorant about the country, its culture,
people, their sufferings. First this has to be changed. There are better people Congress can find
to appoint as its head.
India has about 550 million BoP working class who need
sustainable Jobs (with Salary/PF/ESI etc) and are struggling with average
annual earnings @ less than Rs.15,000. Congress and BJP will try to compete to
win elections by fully supporting this working class, for minimum decent living
The fundamental change that needs to happen with non BJP
Parties is they need to stop equating secularism with Minority appeasement and
Hindu Bashing. Until this change happens BJP will be a force to reckon with.
Congress has failed India time and again and has been left in
the past. People want a strong assertive and progressive party to lead India
into the future.
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