The Great Indian War 2024 : Analysing the upcoming 2024 General elections

"Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about things that matter."
                            - Martin Luther King, Jr

As the 2024 General election edges closer, the battle has already begun. Bjp stronger than ever in full form will be given competition by India (Indian National Developmental Inclusive Alliance) a big tent political alliance of 28 political parties in India led by the Indian National Congress. 
The Bharatiya Janata Party led by Shri Narendra Modi, the Prime Minister of the nation have got a head start with the recent Construction of Ram Mandir, striking the emotions of many Hindu around India. 

Yuval Noah Harari in his book 21 lessons for the 21st century, talks about a quotation of Abraham Lincoln whilst talking about Russia. 
Yuval writes - 
Democracy is based on Abraham Lincoln's principal that 'you can fool all the people some of the time, and some of the people all the time, but you can't fool all the people all the time' 
He goes on to talk about the mordern day senario of Russia, which ironically also suits the case of the Mordern day India -
"Government control of the media undermines Lincoln's logic, because it prevents citizens from realising the truth. Through its monopoly over the media, the ruling oligarchy can repeatdly blame all its failures on others, and divert attention to external threats - either real or imaginary" 

While in the book, this is used to describe Russia it can't be any more true for India aswell. The biggest advantage of the BJP is not in anything else but it's control and monopoly over the main News media. Through it, it can feed in any propaganda to the audience. And Bjp know just how to exploit this power. 

The Opposition, India hasn't really proved to be so successful in itself. Because of the big egos clashing, there has been reports of turmoil and possible breakdown of the opposition. 

This is the main problem, and also possibly the biggest threat to India, No great opposition. 
If a democracy has no good opposition against the ruling party, then a monopoly will be created in which the ruling party can do anything they want. And this cannot happen.

PM. Narendra Modi over the last 10 years has created a grand image for himself and is seen as an almost cult like hero amongst the masses. Through his speeches he has found a place in the common man's heart. Even in his rightist, conservative actions, he remains the people's favourite leader of the democratic secular India. And  the potential PM candidate from the opposition has not been able to come anywhere close to the Prime Minister. Rahul Gandhi was born with a golden spoon in a family filled with leaders. He grew up around socialist minds and in a environment where he saw the Indian politics in its most disturbing phase. He grew up and after graduating also worked for a while untill 2004 when he joined politics. During the 2014-2019 phase, he did a lot of interviews and many of his words casue controversies ( one of them being his very controversial Chowkidar chor hai jibe attacking Pm narendra modi)  and didn't create a very great image for him. Because of his very many silly mistakes, even though he was raising great topics he wasn't taken seriously and he lost the elections. And this severely damaged his image, which even till today he is trying to recover. After the lockdown, Rahul Gandhi has improved his image a little bit. And his campaign the Bharat Jodo Yatra, gained a lot of traction and attention. But still he has a long way to restore his image. 

As the elections close in, the person in  real problem is the Indian common man. Whom should he vote for ? A conservative rightist or a secular dream. You decide. 

-neil 
 

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