[PICTURES] A stunner in Indian elections, for Narendra Modi and BJP its just like chickens came home to roost

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Ajit Doval To Take Charge Of National Security A Third Time

Prime Minister Narendra Modi, in his historic third term, has reposed faith again in his most trusted advisers -- Ajit Doval and PK Mishra. Mr Doval, 79, has been reappointed National Security Adviser. Mr Mishra retains his position as the Principal Secretary to the Prime Minister.

Mr Doval was appointed the NSA a decade ago when PM Modi swept to power with a massive mandate. He became the country's key interlocutor for neighbouring countries. He also handled the external intelligence agency, the Research and Analysis Wing (RAW).

The appointment was inevitable, given Mr Doval's formidable reputation as the country's premier security expert.

The first policeman to be decorated with the country's second-highest peacetime gallantry award, Kirti Chakra, Mr Doval retired as Director of the Intelligence Bureau in 2005. His field experience is staggering, making him a legend in the country's intelligence circuit.

He was part of several counter-terrorism operations in Mizoram, Punjab and Jammu and Kashmir. He infiltrated Amritsar's Golden Temple during the Operation Black Thunder of 1988, posing as a Pakistani agent and came back with vital intel on the terrorists holed up inside. He was among the officers who negotiated the release of the passengers of the hijacked plane IC-814. He also did a six-year stint in the Indian High Commission in Pakistan.

His appointment as the chief of the Strategic Policy Group -- meant for inter-ministerial coordination and integration of inputs -- in 2018 made him the most powerful bureaucrat in the country. The group includes the NITI Aayog vice chairman, the cabinet secretary, the three military chiefs, the Reserve Bank of India governor, the foreign secretary, home secretary, finance secretary and the defence secretary.

Over the last decade, Mr Doval has been the Centre's pointsperson in countering the face-off with China in Ladakh and Doklam. He is also India's special representative for resolving the boundary issue with China.

There will be plenty on the NSA's desk as he resumes charge.

Mr Doval's reappointment comes as the Centre confronts a series of terror attacks in Jammu and Kashmir following the Union Territory's first election after the scrapping of Article 370 in 2019. A record number of people voted in the recent general election in the absence of any boycott call in Kashmir Valley.

Ajit Doval To Take Charge Of National Security A Third Time

Prime Minister Narendra Modi, in his historic third term, has reposed faith again his most trusted advisors -- Ajit Doval and PK Mishra.

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Was curious to know the real truth regarding it as Social Media is abuzzed with the posts saying that BJP's loss was because of Dhruv Rathee Videos?

Any Indian friend who could shed light on it.

 

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India’s opposition leveraged caste and constitution to shock Modi in election​

AYODHYA/VARANASI, India, June 14 (Reuters) - A seminal moment in Prime Minister Narendra Modi's unsuccessful campaign to retain his parliamentary majority occurred days before India's marathon election began in April.
Speaking in the constituency that includes the Hindu temple town of Ayodhya, lawmaker Lallu Singh said that his and Modi's Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) was seeking a supermajority in parliament's lower chamber to make material changes to the constitution.

Opposition parties latched onto Singh's remark to assert, without evidence, that the BJP would amend modern India's founding document to strip Hindus at the bottom of the caste hierarchy of access to affirmative action policies.
The attack line hit a nerve - splitting the Hindu vote and ending the BJP's decade-long dominance in the country's most populous state.

Opinion polls had pointed to a landslide in Ayodhya's home state of Uttar Pradesh and nationally but when results came through on June 4, the BJP had lost 29 seats in the state - nearly half of all the party's losses nationwide.

"It hit the people like fire," said Awadhesh Prasad of the opposition Samajwadi Party (SP), whose base comprises Muslim and lower-caste voters in Uttar Pradesh. He successfully wrested the constituency anchored by Ayodhya from Singh, who had held it since 2014.

Despite the BJP's best efforts to debunk the emerging narrative, the damage was done.
"The prime minister and other leaders tried to explain to the people, but by then their mood was set," said Dileep Patel, a state BJP official in Varanasi. Singh declined to comment.

Reuters interviewed 29 party leaders and workers from the BJP and rival parties, four analysts and 50 voters for this story. They described how lower caste concerns about affirmative action, along with a shortage of jobs, and complacent BJP activists combined to tip the scales in Uttar Pradesh, which sends the most lawmakers to parliament.
After a decade of electoral near-invincibility that combined economic success with a narrative of Hindu supremacy, Modi's party was reduced to 240 seats nationwide. He was able to form a third government only with the help of allies, some of whom have a reputation for political fickleness.

It was a reminder that BJP cannot take Hindu votes for granted.

THE SUPERMAJORITY CALL​

Ayodhya was supposed to be the safest of seats.
In January, Modi inaugurated a grand temple there to the deity Lord Ram in a ceremony that sparked national euphoria. It also fulfilled a decades' long pledge used by the BJP to rise from India's political margins into a major force.
Singh's speech made no mention of taking benefits from lower castes and Modi's aides have frequently downplayed concerns about changes to the constitution, which guarantees school and government job quotas to historically disadvantaged castes and tribal groups, both still among India's poorest.

But it quickly spread on social media, fuelling an opposition campaign. SP chief Akhilesh Yadav wrote on social media that the BJP wanted to end the quota system and keep underprivileged segments of society "as their slaves."

At election rallies, Yadav's ally and the opposition's main figurehead, Rahul Gandhi of the Congress party, began whipping out a pocket-sized copy of the constitution, warning it was under threat.
The message was echoed in media advertisements and by the regional party's workers in Uttar Pradesh, which a SP spokesperson described as 600,000 strong.

India's castes have co-existed uneasily with each other for millennia.
The BJP was long considered a bastion of upper-caste Hindus, but Modi, who belongs to a lower caste, had previously made inroads with marginalised groups, according to analysis by the Delhi-based Centre for the Study of Developing Societies (CSDS).

He has sought to unite Hindus by shifting focus from traditional notions of caste, instead putting the spotlight on the poor, youths, farmers and women - which he calls the four biggest castes in modern India. In power, Modi successively backed a man from a lower caste and a woman from a tribal group for India's largely symbolic presidency.

A relatively united Hindu vote in the last two national elections allowed the BJP to sideline India's nearly 200 million Muslims and overcome longstanding concerns around unemployment, inflation and rural distress. Sandeep Shastri, coordinator of a program on Indian elections at CSDS said the number of people voting primarily on Hindu ideology appeared to have plateaued in 2019.

This year, BJP won just 54 of the 131 seats reserved for candidates from underprivileged groups, down from 77 in 2019. It won eight of the 17 reserved seats in Uttar Pradesh, compared to 14 the last time.
Dharmendra Yadav, a 30-year-old in Varanasi constituency who comes from a lower caste, said he believed the BJP "would have ended the reservations."

"When the opposition raised the issue of the constitution, it just verified it for us," said Dharmendra, whose surname indicates a caste affiliation with the SP's Akhilesh, who he is not related to. Dharmendra previously backed the BJP but went for the opposition this year.

"Caste politics still has a major influence in the Hindi belt," state BJP official Patel said, referring to states across central India that have been BJP's stronghold since 2014.

WHERE ARE THE JOBS?​

Surveys suggest Modi remains the world's most popular elected leader.
But this year, Modi's personal majority in his seat, centred around the holy city of Varanasi, shrank by more than 300,000. He retained his constituency with the lowest margin of any sitting premier in over three decades.
"The BJP heavily relied on the prime minister's leadership to ... win votes and also maybe to camouflage problems that people are facing," said researcher Shastri.

Among those problems is a lack of jobs created over the past decade.
Young voters like Dharmendra had backed BJP in a landslide in 2014, when Modi promised to create 20 million jobs a year nationwide. The pledge has not been fulfilled.

Source: Reuters

 

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The organization of world peace is too slow, it took them one month to observe the obvious
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Modi’s Bitter Victory: BJP’s Surprising Setback Shocks Indian Politics

Having casted 642 million votes in 44 days, the largest-ever democratic election ended on June 4, 2024, shocking both India’s political elites and the entire international scene. Indeed, despite Narendra Modi’s third term confirmation, his Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) performed significantly below projections of winning 400 coalition seats in the Lok Sabha. It obtained only 240 seats, 32 below the required number to ensure absolute majority. This marked a striking moment in Indian politics: the comeback of coalition governments.

The BJP’s need to rely on local parties’ support in the National Democratic Alliance (NDA), and its loss of a supermajority, transformed Modi’s “glorious day” – as he asserted after the results – into a bitter victory. He was well aware of the failure of his populist vision for a Hindu-first nation and of his personal brand. As argued by Dr. Chietigj Bajpaee, Senior Research Fellow in the Asia-Pacific Programme, “given Modi’s central role as the face of the party during the election, the disappointing result has damaged the Modi brand”, who will need to “reinvent himself” to re-establish his decade-long leadership.

However, while the winners mourned their disappointing victory, the Congress-led INDIA coalition celebrated their defeat, notably outperforming the projections of exit polls and pre-election surveys. The opposition hailed its 234 seats as a triumph of pluralism and democracy, as highlighted by Congress chief Mallikarjun Kharge, who exclaimed “this is a mandate in defence of the Constitution of India… and (a mandate) to save democracy”. Moreover, Indian National Congress lawmaker Rahul Gandhi, the opposition leader who had been ridiculed by Modi and by many analysts, asserted himself as a persuasive competitor who undermined “the bubble of Modi’s authority”, who turned out not to be “the indomitable vehicle for History … [but] just another politician, cut to size by the people”, as political scientist Pratap Bhanu Mehta reported.

Furthermore, these results are all the more surprising given the controversial political climate in which they took place. In fact, although the election was nominally free, “this was not a normal contest”, as Indian activist Yogendra Yadav emphasised. These elections took place in a semi-authoritarian country. Opposition leaders – such as Rahul Gandhi and Arvind Kejriwal, have been arrested, the main opposition party’s bank accounts have been frozen, and the media sided almost entirely with the government.

Therefore, this unexpected support for the INDIA coalition set an important lesson for countries all over the world: despite significant institutional challenges, in a full-fledged democracy the power of the people’s vote cannot be undermined, nor can its sovereignty be revoked.

Modi’s ambitious program, which focused on Hindu nationalism, revoking the autonomy of Indian-administered Kashmir, and the supposed maintenance of “stable” governance, did not resonate with voters more interested in local issues. People’s concerns with unemployment, inflation, and the BJP’s divisive views on ethnicity and religion defeated Modi in major states that had always strongly backed him, such as the nation’s most populous state of Uttar Pradesh and in Banswara, in the western state of Rajasthan, where he referred to the Muslim population as “infiltrators”.

The implications of this new political reality in the Lok Sabha will have a major impact on the policymaking process, due to the number of parliamentary seats obtained by the opposition, which will hamper the BJP’s more controversial and identity-driven policies, along with its politically sensitive economic reforms. However, although a competitive democratic system has been re-affirmed, highlighting Indian democracy’s strength and resilience, a more accurate picture will be drawn only after the results of state elections, 5 of which will take place in the next 14 months. These will also have a substantial impact on India’s political and institutional landscape– and may tip the balance in favour of Modi’s BJP or the INDIA opposition coalition.

Source: The Organization of World Peace

Modi’s Bitter Victory: BJP’s Surprising Setback Shocks Indian Politics

Having casted 642 million votes in 44 days, the largest-ever democratic election ended on June 4, 2024, shocking both India’s political elites and the entire international scene. Indeed, despite Na…

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[Aang_The_last_airbender]

The organization of world peace is too slow, it took them one month to observe the obvious
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Modi’s Bitter Victory: BJP’s Surprising Setback Shocks Indian Politics

Having casted 642 million votes in 44 days, the largest-ever democratic election ended on June 4, 2024, shocking both India’s political elites and the entire international scene. Indeed, despite Narendra Modi’s third term confirmation, his Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) performed significantly below projections of winning 400 coalition seats in the Lok Sabha. It obtained only 240 seats, 32 below the required number to ensure absolute majority. This marked a striking moment in Indian politics: the comeback of coalition governments.

The BJP’s need to rely on local parties’ support in the National Democratic Alliance (NDA), and its loss of a supermajority, transformed Modi’s “glorious day” – as he asserted after the results – into a bitter victory. He was well aware of the failure of his populist vision for a Hindu-first nation and of his personal brand. As argued by Dr. Chietigj Bajpaee, Senior Research Fellow in the Asia-Pacific Programme, “given Modi’s central role as the face of the party during the election, the disappointing result has damaged the Modi brand”, who will need to “reinvent himself” to re-establish his decade-long leadership.

However, while the winners mourned their disappointing victory, the Congress-led INDIA coalition celebrated their defeat, notably outperforming the projections of exit polls and pre-election surveys. The opposition hailed its 234 seats as a triumph of pluralism and democracy, as highlighted by Congress chief Mallikarjun Kharge, who exclaimed “this is a mandate in defence of the Constitution of India… and (a mandate) to save democracy”. Moreover, Indian National Congress lawmaker Rahul Gandhi, the opposition leader who had been ridiculed by Modi and by many analysts, asserted himself as a persuasive competitor who undermined “the bubble of Modi’s authority”, who turned out not to be “the indomitable vehicle for History … [but] just another politician, cut to size by the people”, as political scientist Pratap Bhanu Mehta reported.

Furthermore, these results are all the more surprising given the controversial political climate in which they took place. In fact, although the election was nominally free, “this was not a normal contest”, as Indian activist Yogendra Yadav emphasised. These elections took place in a semi-authoritarian country. Opposition leaders – such as Rahul Gandhi and Arvind Kejriwal, have been arrested, the main opposition party’s bank accounts have been frozen, and the media sided almost entirely with the government.

Therefore, this unexpected support for the INDIA coalition set an important lesson for countries all over the world: despite significant institutional challenges, in a full-fledged democracy the power of the people’s vote cannot be undermined, nor can its sovereignty be revoked.

Modi’s ambitious program, which focused on Hindu nationalism, revoking the autonomy of Indian-administered Kashmir, and the supposed maintenance of “stable” governance, did not resonate with voters more interested in local issues. People’s concerns with unemployment, inflation, and the BJP’s divisive views on ethnicity and religion defeated Modi in major states that had always strongly backed him, such as the nation’s most populous state of Uttar Pradesh and in Banswara, in the western state of Rajasthan, where he referred to the Muslim population as “infiltrators”.

The implications of this new political reality in the Lok Sabha will have a major impact on the policymaking process, due to the number of parliamentary seats obtained by the opposition, which will hamper the BJP’s more controversial and identity-driven policies, along with its politically sensitive economic reforms. However, although a competitive democratic system has been re-affirmed, highlighting Indian democracy’s strength and resilience, a more accurate picture will be drawn only after the results of state elections, 5 of which will take place in the next 14 months. These will also have a substantial impact on India’s political and institutional landscape– and may tip the balance in favour of Modi’s BJP or the INDIA opposition coalition.

Source: The Organization of World Peace

Modi’s Bitter Victory: BJP’s Surprising Setback Shocks Indian Politics

Having casted 642 million votes in 44 days, the largest-ever democratic election ended on June 4, 2024, shocking both India’s political elites and the entire international scene. Indeed, despite Na…

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This was an excellent result by a robust Indian democracy.
Atleast, it quiets down that random bogus claims about EVMs being hacked or the integrity of the election process.
Indian voters spoke through the ballot and hopefully the political parties will learn their lesson.
The real winner is INDIA aka Bharat

 

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BJP needs to reorganise itself and make sure Raga’s inefficiencies are highlighted.

From the looks of it Raga might actually be a future PM, setting a precedent as usual on how Nepotism and being dud can still make one PM of India.

Jay Shah , Anant Ambani are other two.

Imagine if Jay Shah ICC ,raga Indian PM and Anant Ambani leading Reliance that would be the perfect trifecta of hell for meritocracy.

 

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BJP needs to reorganise itself and make sure Raga’s inefficiencies are highlighted.

From the looks of it Raga might actually be a future PM, setting a precedent as usual on how Nepotism and being dud can still make one PM of India.

Jay Shah , Anant Ambani are other two.

Imagine if Jay Shah ICC ,raga Indian PM and Anant Ambani leading Reliance that would be the perfect trifecta of hell for meritocracy.

Modi hasn't groomed a successor yet, people were betting on Yogi but let BJP down big time.

 

[JaDed]

Modi hasn't groomed a successor yet, people were betting on Yogi but let BJP down big time.

Modi doesn’t have to groom a successor, he wasn’t groomed to be the PM, RSS- BJP will choose who is right for the time, unlike Congress the PM position wouldn’t be for someone’s son or daughter like Congress does.

And majority BJP members can easily take on Raga, heck even in his own party if he ever held a debate he would be blown to pieces by Sachin Pilot.

The only thing going for Raga is Indians love for subsidy and free stuff, and that he can promise in huge numbers.

 

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Modi hasn't groomed a successor yet, people were betting on Yogi but let BJP down big time.

They have enough time to find a replacement. I can see Modi winning in the next elections too. Coalition or by themselves, Modi will be PM for the next decade.

This was the best chance for Congress to topple BJP and the best they did was fall short of century. No hope for Congress in next elections.

 

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They have enough time to find a replacement. I can see Modi winning in the next elections too. Coalition or by themselves, Modi will be PM for the next decade.

This was the best chance for Congress to topple BJP and the best they did was fall short of century. No hope for Congress in next elections.

If congress could promote new guys instead of looking them as threat to their own leadership then they still have a great chance in 2029

 

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If congress could promote new guys instead of looking them as threat to their own leadership then they still have a great chance in 2029

Congress cannot look for new faces. They can't think beyond RaGa. He is still young and will be leading Congress for another 20 years. They are stuck with him. They don't have a single leader who has pan India appeal.

 

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Congress cannot look for new faces. They can't think beyond RaGa. He is still young and will be leading Congress for another 20 years. They are stuck with him. They don't have a single leader who has pan India appeal.

Not even Sachin pilot?

 

[Champ_Pal]

Not even Sachin pilot?

No one in South India knows Sachin pilot. They would think he is some famous Air Plane driver. Sachin Pilot may be popular in his state or his neighboring state. That's about it. He was never thrusted forward by Congress as a leader.
Even after the best performance of Congress in the recently concluded elections in more than a decade, the entire opposition chose RaGa as the leader of opposition. This shows their mindset.
If Congress had any thought of promoting someone else as a PM candidate in the next elections, they would've at least selected someone like Sachin Pilot as their leader. That would at least make Sachin Pilot's name more popular among entire India.
But we know how Congress works. They are what they are. If RaGa does not have any children, they will promote his sister Priyanka Wadra's kids as future leaders. That is their aukat.

 

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Not even Sachin pilot?

Sachin Pilot couldn't even rise to the post of CM in internal politics of Rajasthan Congress, let alone Pan-India appeal.

 

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Good analysis
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Voter disconnect, motormouths, wrong candidate selection — what review of BJP’s UP results found

BJP general secretary organisation B.L.Santhosh led a post-poll analysis for two days in Lucknow where a major point of review was the shift of Dalit and backward caste voters to the rival combine of the Samajwadi Party and the Congress in Uttar Pradesh.

Three major factors came out when Santhosh asked Dalit ministers in the Yogi cabinet — Baby Rani Maurya, Gulab Devi, Asim Arun and Dinesh Khatik — as well as SC and OBC Morcha heads — how this happened especially given that the backward communities voted en masse for the party in the 2022 Uttar Pradesh elections.

The first and major reason cited for the alienation of Dalits and backward communities was the BJP’s own ‘Kalidas’ (alluding to the legend about the poet having been a fool earlier in life) who through their statements on ‘Abki Baar, 400 Paar‘ fuelled the opposition’s narrative that the Constitution would be amended if the ruling party attains its target.

Source: The Print

 

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Lol, now even Stalin criticizing BJP
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Tamil Nadu Chief Minister M K Stalin on Thursday accused the BJP of not “learning lessons” despite successive electoral failures in the state by citing the Union Government’s refusal to grant funds to key projects like Phase-II of Chennai

“We are working not just for people who voted for us but also for those who didn’t vote for us. But we are not able to witness such magnanimity from others (BJP). The Union Government hasn’t learnt any lessons despite continuous defeats faced by the ...

DMK youth wing secretary and state minister Udhayanidhi Stalin said the Bharatiya Janata Party cannot establish a foothold in Tamil Nadu. He made the remark while campaigning for DMK candidate Anniyur A Siva contesting in the Vikravandi bypoll on Sunday night and Monday. He also claimed the AIADMK had decided not to contest the bypolls due to their fear of facing the people.

The minister said that even if Prime Minister Narendra Modi visited Tamil Nadu a thousand times, the BJP could not gain a foothold in Tamil Nadu and the people here will not give that space.

Highlighting the DMK's achievements, stating, "After the DMK came to power, various schemes including free travel for women in government town buses and `1,000 assistance for girl students were implemented as per the election manifesto, benefiting crores of people. In Vikravandi constituency as well, several schemes have been implemented, and many development works are in progress."

Source: Deccan Heralds

 

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India election: Modi’s BJP failure to retain Faizabad reveals sea change in country’s politics​

Narendra Modi was sworn in as India’s prime minister on June 9 for a historic third term. But his power and mandate stand unexpectedly diminished. His Bharatiya Janata party (BJP) fell short of an absolute majority and has had to rely on coalition partners to form the government.

The losses were particularly humbling in the north Indian state of Uttar Pradesh, and especially in the holy city of Ayodhya. Uttar Pradesh is home to more than 257 million people and has the most parliamentary seats of any state in the country. In 2014, when Modi first came to power, people in this state formed the core of the BJP’s support.

A few months before the election, Modi inaugurated a controversial new Hindu temple in Ayodhya at the site of a mosque demolished more than 30 years ago. The political motives were clear. Modi turned the consecration of the temple into a massive national event, aiming to galvanise his conservative Hindu support base.

Ayodhya even underwent a US$3 billion (£2.3 billion) government-funded transformation to turn it into what some Hindu nationalist leaders have called a “Hindu Vatican”.

However, voters in Faizabad constituency, which includes Ayodhya, rejected the BJP – and resoundingly at that. The candidate for the opposition Samajwadi party, Awadhesh Prasad, defeated the BJP’s nominee, Lallu Singh, by a margin of almost 55,000 votes.

Throughout the election campaign, Modi spoke at length about the importance of the temple in Ayodhya. He hailed the opening of the temple as fulfilment of “the dream that many have cherished for years”.

But people wanted more than just words. The BJP’s defeat in Faizabad shows that a disregard for local issues and the use of astute, inclusive political tactics may result in changes to voter loyalty, even in areas of historical significance to India’s majority Hindu population.

How Indian politics is changing​

Ayodhya is believed by many Hindus to be the birthplace of their god Lord Rama and holds immense religious and historical importance. It is also the site of a land dispute that stretches back more than a century.

In 1992, following a nationwide campaign to build a temple on the site of the Babri Masjid mosque, tens of thousands of Hindu protestors gathered in Ayodhya and tore the mosque down. Many Hindus believe that the mosque was built in place of an ancient Hindu temple – something modern archaeological excavations have not yet found evidence for.

The mosque’s demolition sparked riots across the country that killed nearly 2,000 people. And since then, Muslims and Hindus have gone to court many times over who should control the site.

In 2019, the Indian Supreme Court ruled that the disputed land should be given to Hindus for a temple, while Muslims would be allocated land at another location for the construction of a mosque. The court then ordered the federal government to set up a trust to manage and oversee the temple’s construction.

Unsurprisingly, the ruling has done little to ease tensions. The new temple was built partly on land that was already occupied by minority communities, whose houses have been demolished to make way for a 20-metre wide and 13-kilometre long path leading to the temple. Many of these displaced residents have not been properly compensated for the loss of their property.

Other residents of Ayodhya also lost their property as part of the government’s plan to modernise the city. Part of the land owned by the Ayodhya’s university, alongside a set of buildings that house staff, was allotted to the construction of a new airport.

Prasad capitalised on these problems, as well as others including simmering anger over unemployment, during his campaign. The unemployment rate in India rose to 8.1% in April from 7.4% in March, compared with around 6% before the pandemic. According to a survey of 20,000 voters by the CSDS-Lokniti polling agency, unemployment played a key role in determining the votes of 27% of people.

The opposition spun the BJP’s campaign slogan that it was seeking 400 seats in parliament against the governing party. With such a large mandate, they claimed, the BJP could take away the constitutional rights of historically marginalised communities such as Dalits, who sit at the bottom of India’s caste hierarchy.

Source: The Conversation

 

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They have enough time to find a replacement. I can see Modi winning in the next elections too. Coalition or by themselves, Modi will be PM for the next decade.

This was the best chance for Congress to topple BJP and the best they did was fall short of century. No hope for Congress in next elections.

Let him complete this term first.

 

[Champ_Pal]

Let him complete this term first.

He will. I remember certain Congress back in late 80's and early 90's. They were supporting every to dick and harry to become PM. Chandra Sekhar, Deve Gowda etc. Poor guys too support from Congress to form Government and Congress was pulled the rug on both of those fellows.

Thankfully Modi Govermnt is still 80% of the majority. JDU and TDP are small minority regional parties supporting them. Not all parties are weasels like Congies.

 

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UP BJP Rejig Soon? State Chief Offers To Quit Over Poll Drubbing: Sources

The BJP is prepping for an organisational rejig in Uttar Pradesh after its big drubbing in the politically-significant state in this Lok Sabha election, sources have told NDTV. State BJP president Bhupendra Chaudhary, it is learnt, has taken responsibility for the party's poor show and offered to step down during a meeting with Prime Minister Narendra Modi in Delhi today. Union Home Minister Amit Shah met the PM at his residence to discuss the next move.
Over the past few days, key BJP leaders in Uttar Pradesh are in the national capital and are holding meetings with the party brass. Earlier, Deputy Chief Minister Keshav Prasad Maurya met BJP national president JP Nadda, fuelling the buzz over a big revamp.

According to sources, the Prime Minister discussed key organisation issues with the Uttar Pradesh BJP president. The BJP, it is learnt, is keen on having an OBC leader as its state chief as it preps to bounce back from the poll setback and prepare for the 2027 state polls. The incumbent, Mr Chaudhary, is a Jat leader from Moradabad and was given the role in 2022 to quell the resentment against BJP within the community.

The BJP's possible choice of an OBC leader to replace Mr Chaudhary may be explained by the fact that OBCs account for a sizeable chunk of the state's population and are a key factor in elections.

The BJP's suffered a big debacle in Uttar Pradesh in this general election, with its score dropping from 62 in 2019 to 33 this time as main Opposition Samajwadi Party made big gains.

The BJP has won the last two state polls in Uttar Pradesh and will leave no stone unturned to score a hat-trick. So, wide and big changes in the party organisation are likely.

Speculation over an organisational overhaul come against the Opposition's claims of infighting within the Yogi Adityanath government in the state. This buzz was sparked by a remark by Deputy Chief Minister Maurya during a party meeting on Sunday. "The organisation is bigger than the government. No one is bigger than the organisation," Mr Maurya said. The remark was widely seen as a veiled swipe at Chief Minister Adityanath.

Latching on to the remark, Samajwadi Party chief Akhilesh Yadav said people of the state are suffering due to infighting within the state government. "BJP leaders are fighting among themselves. The people know about the corruption and are fed up with the game of thrones," he said.

BJP, however, dismissed the infighting buzz. Responding to the Samajwadi Party chief, Mr Maurya tweeted this afternoon that the BJP's governments and organisation in the country and the state are strong. "The return of SP's reign of goons in UP is impossible. BJP will repeat 2017 in the 2027 state polls," he posted on X. Significantly, Mr Maurya was state BJP chief in 2017 and the BJP had scored a thumping win in that election.

In a potent remark at the BJP state executive meeting, Mr Adityanath had said "overconfidence" cost the party in the Lok Sabha election. "The percentage of votes that was in favour of BJP in 2014 and subsequent elections, BJP has been successful in getting the same number of votes in 2024 as well, but the shifting of votes and overconfidence have hurt our expectations," Mr Adityanath said, calling upon party workers to step up preparations for the upcoming bypolls.

Source: NDTV

 

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UP BJP Rejig Soon? State Chief Offers To Quit Over Poll Drubbing: Sources

The BJP is prepping for an organisational rejig in Uttar Pradesh after its big drubbing in the politically-significant state in this Lok Sabha election, sources have told NDTV. State BJP president Bhupendra Chaudhary, it is learnt, has taken responsibility for the party's poor show and offered to step down during a meeting with Prime Minister Narendra Modi in Delhi today. Union Home Minister Amit Shah met the PM at his residence to discuss the next move.
Over the past few days, key BJP leaders in Uttar Pradesh are in the national capital and are holding meetings with the party brass. Earlier, Deputy Chief Minister Keshav Prasad Maurya met BJP national president JP Nadda, fuelling the buzz over a big revamp.

According to sources, the Prime Minister discussed key organisation issues with the Uttar Pradesh BJP president. The BJP, it is learnt, is keen on having an OBC leader as its state chief as it preps to bounce back from the poll setback and prepare for the 2027 state polls. The incumbent, Mr Chaudhary, is a Jat leader from Moradabad and was given the role in 2022 to quell the resentment against BJP within the community.

The BJP's possible choice of an OBC leader to replace Mr Chaudhary may be explained by the fact that OBCs account for a sizeable chunk of the state's population and are a key factor in elections.

The BJP's suffered a big debacle in Uttar Pradesh in this general election, with its score dropping from 62 in 2019 to 33 this time as main Opposition Samajwadi Party made big gains.

The BJP has won the last two state polls in Uttar Pradesh and will leave no stone unturned to score a hat-trick. So, wide and big changes in the party organisation are likely.

Speculation over an organisational overhaul come against the Opposition's claims of infighting within the Yogi Adityanath government in the state. This buzz was sparked by a remark by Deputy Chief Minister Maurya during a party meeting on Sunday. "The organisation is bigger than the government. No one is bigger than the organisation," Mr Maurya said. The remark was widely seen as a veiled swipe at Chief Minister Adityanath.

Latching on to the remark, Samajwadi Party chief Akhilesh Yadav said people of the state are suffering due to infighting within the state government. "BJP leaders are fighting among themselves. The people know about the corruption and are fed up with the game of thrones," he said.

BJP, however, dismissed the infighting buzz. Responding to the Samajwadi Party chief, Mr Maurya tweeted this afternoon that the BJP's governments and organisation in the country and the state are strong. "The return of SP's reign of goons in UP is impossible. BJP will repeat 2017 in the 2027 state polls," he posted on X. Significantly, Mr Maurya was state BJP chief in 2017 and the BJP had scored a thumping win in that election.

In a potent remark at the BJP state executive meeting, Mr Adityanath had said "overconfidence" cost the party in the Lok Sabha election. "The percentage of votes that was in favour of BJP in 2014 and subsequent elections, BJP has been successful in getting the same number of votes in 2024 as well, but the shifting of votes and overconfidence have hurt our expectations," Mr Adityanath said, calling upon party workers to step up preparations for the upcoming bypolls.

Source: NDTV

Would be great for UP and India if Yogi bows out.

 

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Deen Dayal Upadhyaya may have shaped BJP’s ideology, but his idea of nationalism was all about pushing one culture and ignoring India’s diversity. Modi’s government is just following the same path forcing a single identity on everyone, rather than celebrating our differences.

Upadhyaya’s integral humanism might sound good on paper, but in reality, it sidelines anyone who doesn’t fit into that narrow vision. Modi has taken this further, ignoring other communities and pushing a limited, one-sided culture.

 

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‘If Anything Happens To Him…’: AAP Alleges BJP ‘Goons’ Tried To Attack Arvind Kejriwal​

Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) on Friday claimed that some miscreants allegedly attempted to attack former Delhi Chief minister and party’s national convenor Arvind Kejriwal. It alleged that Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) was responsible for this attack.

Kejriwal was holding a foot march in West Delhi’s Vikaspuri area on Friday evening when some miscreants allegedly tried to attack him, news agency PTI reported. The party also accused the Delhi Police of not stopping the BJP goons.

Delhi minister and senior AAP leader Saurabh Bharadwaj has warned the saffron party of the consequences if something happens to Kejriwal. He said that the attack was done because Kejriwal is going among the masses and is getting their love and affection.

“When ED, CBI and jail did not work, now BJP people are getting @ArvindKejriwal attacked. If anything happens to Kejriwal, BJP will be directly responsible for that,” Bharadwaj said in a post on X.

Delhi Chief Minister Atishi said that BJP’s dirty politics stooped too low by attacking Kejriwal as it cannot defeat AAP in the upcoming elections.

“…Today during the padyatra, some BJP workers raised slogans against Arvind Kejriwal and attacked him. Anything could have happened to him in this attack. If they had weapons, Arvind Kejriwal could have also lost his life. This attack has clearly been carried out by the BJP because BJP workers had attacked Arvind Kejriwal earlier as well. Till date, Delhi police has not taken any action against those who had attacked Arvind Kejriwal,” she said in a press conference.

“The people of Delhi have seen how low the BJP’s dirty politics can stoop to. Arvind Kejriwal was attacked by BJP goons during his Vikaspuri padyatra. BJP knows that it cannot defeat AAP and Arvind Kejriwal in elections, that is why they have resorted to such dirty politics and want to kill Arvind Kejriwal,” she added.

Several other leaders including, former Delhi deputy CM Manish Sisodia and party MLA Durgesh Pathak also condemned the attack and traded barbs at BJP.

“The attack on Arvind Kejriwal is extremely condemnable and worrying. It is clear that the BJP has carried out this attack through its goons. If anything happens to Arvind Kejriwal, the entire responsibility will be on the BJP. We are not going to be afraid—the Aam Aadmi Party will remain steadfast on its mission. #AttackOnKejriwal,” Sisodia said in an X post.

Aam Aadmi Party leaders including Kejriwal are undertaking padyatras (foot marches) in different assembly segments in the city in run-up to the February 2025 polls. No immediate reaction was available from the BJP over the Aam Aadmi Party’s allegations.

‘If Anything Happens To Him…’: AAP Alleges BJP ‘Goons’ Tried To Attack Arvind Kejriwal - News18

The AAP alleged that Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) was responsible for this attack. It also accused the Delhi Police of not stopping the BJP goons.

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