As Narendra Modi romps home at the hustings, bagging more seats than in 2014 elections, flooring the naysayers, Doubting Thomases and Modi-haters, it was Modi wave back to back, unprecedented in the history of electoral politics of India.
The ‘anti-Modi camp’ could not pick the signals of the unprecedented popularity and mandate for Modi that zoomed in the horizon, and zipped passed their radars, as dense clouds of hate, bias and obnoxious rivalries obscured their vision.
What also helped was the bogey of intolerance, anarchy, undermining of constitutional bodies, rising joblessness and corruption, all conjured up by the opposition, that finally backfired on them.
And the surgical strike on such ‘anti-Indian’ installations was accomplished with strategic precision.
The dirty politics of caste, religion, freebies, fear mongering and minority appeasement that was manufactured at these ‘anti-Indian installations’ by corrupt and inefficient Dynasts over many decades, were bombed heavily.
There has been a massive loss on the ‘opposite camp’, and Amit Shah has claimed the head count to be 552.
And a legion of recruits who were being radicalised and brainwashed to carry out their war of propaganda, have suddenly disappeared from the camps.
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The people of West Bengal has given a ‘tight slap of democracy’ to Mamta Didi, who tried her best by murdering and intimidating her opposition parties, doing mass rigging at strongholds of her party and unleashed terror that left the voters mortified for life, to win the elections.
West Bengal has become an island of anarchy, and the ‘defenders of democracy’ turned a deaf ear and a blind eye to Didi’s excesses. But, this hypocrisy did not go unnoticed by the electorate.
Bengal is seeing an awakening of Hindu consciousness, which was incessantly derided, demeaned and viciously attacked by Didi in her quest to appease illegal Muslim migrants. (The ‘cabal’ called it the Hindu polarisation by the BJP, but conveniently tried to avoid any debate on it.)
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The ‘cabal’ sitting in their cozy rooms decided that Rahul Gandhi is the best candidate to decimate Modi.
A ‘David vs Goliath‘ narrative, demonizing Modi and positioning Rahul as the underdog who has finally risen to save India, was bandied and thrust down the minds of the electorate with full enthusiasm.
What they didn’t realise was since the advent of the social media, the era of monopoly of the one sided narrative and surreptitiously hijacking public opinion is passe now.
Nowadays, it’s a level playing field and big opinion makers are no more relevant.
Anybody can flout their opinion in the massive sea of information, in full public display and lies and propaganda get ‘counter-torpedoed’ on either side of the divide.
The ‘Idiot Box’ is replaced by ‘smartphones’, and nobody holds sway or large swathes of people anymore.
The David aimed a few slingshots of fluffy cotton balls, Chowkidar Chor Hai being the most regular harangue, abused Goliath in the most chaste words and foolishly hugged him and claimed ‘only love for Goliath’ in his pure heart, intermittently. Not only Goliath, but the whole nation was confused and exasperated by his queer behaviour, rally after rally, but the cabal was no less cheering at the top of their voice, deciphering the coded language that Rahul in his gibber.
Ironically, the David who could not even come to striking distance of the Goliath, was easily defeated by just a footsoldier, a women at that, in his own fortified bastion.
Running for cover, he had to seek refuge in far-flung part of ‘Gods Own Country (side)’.
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Kanhaiya Kumar of the JNU Tukde Tukde infamy was supported by a galaxy of stars from the Bollywood, liberals of all hues and ‘free thinkers’ and artists who think that Modi spells doom for democracy. He was hailed as the future of India by the cabal, and he did seem to get a massive crowd support, at least in his rallies; (who doesn’t like to see a Bollywood starlet without a ticket), but the final results showed that the people are mature, and any ideology that talks of divide India would be thrown in a dustbin.
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This result marks a paradigm shift in the way politics was done in India.
It’s the rise of the millennials who are fiercely aware of their rights and are sceptical of the narrative that is dished out to them by traditional historians. They are questioning the ‘greatness’ of the Nehru-Gandhis, who are not revered by them, unlike the past generations that were loyal to Congress without asking any questions. The Dynasts in the ‘secular parties’ — who fed on their vote-banks without any accountability and so callously, full of arrogance ganged up just by adding up the numbers assuming that people will follow them like herds — were given the shock of their life.
People were punished for humiliating their armed forces and siding with Pakistan, shamelessly compromising their own country’s interest internationally.
The Muslims once again didn’t vote for Modi, and in their own words, they were of no relevance in this election.
While Modi has to take a few steps to gain the confidence of the largest minority, they in turn have to grow out of their ‘victimhood‘ and ‘anti Modi ‘ mindset and try to join the mainstream.
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For now, it’s Modi 2019, who has to compete with Modi 2014, and better his performance.
The people of this great country has bestowed unprecedented confidence in him, and he has the burden to prove them right.
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