India politics thread
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Well, looks like Yogi is coming back.
Even after the insane handling of covid still Yogi will win. Unbelievable.
BJP is invincible in UP.
Even after the insane handling of covid still Yogi will win. Unbelievable.
BJP is invincible in UP.
It's on expected lines. If anything, the predicted numbers are just perfect for Dear Leader, with Yogi's popularity cut to size.
Yeah I knew BJP would win easy but a small part of me hoped SP would pull off a miracle. Another term of love jihad, land jihad and the other jihads Yogi will invent along the way
BJP won on back of Modi love last time. Will be same again. Nothing unexpected.
BJP not losing any other states is a bummer though.
They'll lose Goa probably. Until Amit Shah prepares his moneybags anyway.
All Goa MLAs are for sale. BJP did it last time as well right?
Some whole party moved to BJP if I remember correctly
BJP doesn't care about any other state in this election other than UP anyway. Modi still being popular in UP unfortunately confirms that he will win in 2024 again. He has the cracked some kind of magical formula of social welfarism and bigotry. It is as if Trump had actually passed policies to benefit working class in US.
So our soldiers are safe, thank God!!
So Chidambaram says they are talking to AAP and Trinamool in Goa. Even if the alliance works for now, which is doubtful, it is going to break up sooner or later.
Congress should shut down their party. It's a shame how Modi's BJP has been getting a free reign. At this rate Modi will rule for 5 more years. Thank you Congress and Rahul Gandhi.
BJP will govern for another 10-20 easily. The opposition is almost non existent. BJP has infinite money and that means they control the narrative/propaganda. And in a religious/superstitious country like India, propaganda works way too easily.
And they can continue getting infinite funds, as long as they continue to appease their sponsors.
There is a small hope that after Modi gets old/tired, then the charisma will be lost and people will ask normal questions like where are the jobs? where is the development? etc etc., but I don't have high hopes on that.
Y’all underestimate how much the Brent price will destroy us. Our hero can do nothing about it but to pass it on to the common man. It’s going to destroy whatever small MSME ecosystem that had survived the last 5 yrs.
Yes at this stage economy is the only thing that can topple Modi but problem with that is that he is tapping into old 60-70s style Govt dependent social welfare policies to firm up the rural vote bank with messaging that even in tough times, Govt is giving you the bare minimum for free. Urban class would definitely revolt in case of a serious downturn but not sure if that would be enough.
I feel there is something fundamentally wrong with Congress. Taking away the media propaganda and all other things, let us not forget Congress is also losing to AAP in state they dominated, Punjab (I know final result not yet here but going by the exit polls). I said back in 2019 that they needed to come with a new plan and more importantly NEW FACE. It's been now 3 years into Modi's second reign and nothing seems to have changed in Congress' approach. It's high time they do realise people are not going to accept and vote for Rahul led congress. We can all do the blame game that his image was tarnished by modi media, etc. etc but maybe sometimes it's not meant to be and for Rahul it's not meant to be.
They seemed to have lost any kind of political will.
Modi abuses them blatantly in every election campiagn speech. BJP leaders simply mock (and I mean in meanest of words). But Congress does nothing. Do you hear any Congress leader call Modi a dithering idiot. Call out Amit Shah's son taking up BCCI jobs as blatant nepotism. Nothing is stopping them from doing that. Modi lies through his teeth. Even the troll pages are catching what BJP and Modi and mocking the hypocrisy. But Congress seems least interested in taking BJP down. They should be on roads protesting like crazy, making themselevs impossible to be ignored. But nothing. They give some press statements here and there. They try to speak in parliament which no public listens to. BJP blatantly teams up with speaker to shut down any shouting in the parliament.
They don't want to take on anyone. My mad theory is that someone has paid the Congress party to keep its criticism to mild. Or BJP has said all their leaders will be in jail, if they raise their voices beyond mild.
I see AAP won in Punjab. A party that didn't really exist a decade ago is now running a couple of states. Well done to them, I hope they don't succumb and become drunk on power.
Well done AAP 
This thred will be juicy today.
This thred will be juicy today.
Terribly disappointed with how Goa and Uttarakhand went.
Why would you get your hopes up? Goa is pointless anyway. Even if we BJP had gotten 5 seats, they probably would have bought the rest of the parties to form the Govt.
There goes 2024 as well. Congress for all its ideology is a terribly run party. Another 7 years atleast until we get rid of the Modi Government
Ah shite, here we go again
I don't know much about Indian politics, but Rahul Gandhi is a problem. When he lost the last General election didn't his mum force the party to keep him?
I don't think Congress can get their shit together, your best bet is AAP party.There goes 2024 as well. Congress for all its ideology is a terribly run party. Another 7 years atleast until we get rid of the Modi Government
Beside Yogi and Amit Shah will be BJP's strong candidates after Modi.
I know absolutely nothing about Indian/Pakistani politics, but from what I can tell Modi is pretty hard line, seeing as he revoked Kashmir's special status (or so I read). Is there much of a risk of that dispute going hot again?
He is a huge problem and many within their party don't want to admit that or they are just not being let to admit that. Yes BJP is strong and has the media wave behind them but they can be defeated. Rahul Gandhi is the big reason why Modi govt will come for the third term. We can all blame on media tarnishing his image etc etc but then sometimes you have to put your hand up and say maybe this whole politics is not for me. Anyways as this election suggests they need to badly change their ideology and bring a new face who can connect to people. Rahul will never be that person.
I don't think there is any risk of it escalating a lot in near future but I don't see it getting resolved any time soon either. India's main focus is on quelling internal distress in Kashmir.
The issue is that the Congress guys have accepted that RG will remain in power.
I remember reading somewhere, that while people can blame RG for everything, if he leaves, there will be power struggle in that party with every Tom, Dick and Harry wanting to be the president. And while, I think it is true for short term, over long term, they will actually become relevant again.
There may be a power struggle with RG gone but with him there is no way this party will be relevant again. It's like Woodward leading Manchester United with his footballing decision. Just that RG leading congress has been even worse.
As bad as BJP has been surely no one would want another 300 years of the British Raj?
Joke
Everyone is trying their best for WW3.
The party is a mess.
To someone who has more expertise, I only watch as an NRI with curiosity, but what is the tonic to moving India away from Modi’s populist politics? He only cares about the Hindu vote. Congress are so weak and the Gandhi-Nehru legacy needs to immediately and rightfully get lost. I think it takes someone strong willed from Bengal or the South to take him out re: thru elections not assassination!
AAP, but that will take another decade easily.
Yup. Probably longer when BJP gets 10x the donations every year.