The last few weeks has seen the naked arrogance of the Prime Minister Narendra Modi and his party BJP is full display. The party expected that the protests will die down soon as they had already shut down their X account. They expected that only a few 100 protestors will turn up and will soon disperse especially after they had taken Sonam Wangchuck forcibly to the hospital. They felt cut the head and the trunk will fall down automatically.
Their digital media was working overtime spreading conspiracy theories saying this was sponsored by AAP, sponsored by the Americans and other Western powers to bring down the Modi government as they were scared that India will soon supersede America and other Western powers under the eminent leadership of Modi. They also had a NEET topper release a video saying that he improved his score by studying harder and staying away from protests. The Modi bhakths were trying their best to malign and tarnish the protestors in all ways they could.
All one has to see X feed of Narendra Modi and BJP to see how much resentment is simmering. Pick up almost any self-congratulatory post of Modi or BJP or for that matter any other BJP bhakth. Every post had more retorts than praises or congratulations on achievement.
If Modi and BJP had a little less arrogance, they should have read the sentiment of the people, but their arrogance blinds them. They have a feeling that they should dictate and control the future of India and drive in a direction where Hindi becomes the preeminent language and Hinduism (hardcore version) be the only religion. It is difficult to fathom why they are driving towards this goal. Even RSS doesn't seems be so stridently demanding this as a goal. Yes its offshoots like VHP and Bajrang Dal will not shy away from such demands.
One hopes that Modi and BJP learn and give up their arrogance and learn to build consensus. Given the past, this looks unlikely. Demonetisation, abolishment of article of 370, farm reforms, the three language policy of CBSE, delimitation, the building of metro depot at Aarey in Mumbai, the cutting of the mangroves for coastal road in Mumbai all goes to show that Modi and his party are unlikely learn and this is a sad for India. Demonatisation, abolishment of article 370, farm reforms were all required. They could have succeeded if the right stakeholders had been included in the decision making and a consensus had been reached before they were brought forward. Instead the government wants to thrust down the throats of the citizens of India.
The opposition is clueless and have no leader, worth their salt, or any plans which gives Indians the confidence to say that they can bring down this government and elect the opposition, but I guess it nevertheless happen in 2029.
For creating this situation, we have to thank the CJI, another sycophant of Modi, for provoking the youth from their slumber by calling them cockroaches (irrespective of how many times he says that people interpreted him wrongly, this will stick). He has only aggravated the situation by saying that the has no time for hearing cases against the atrocities of police against the protestors.
The way it is going, Modi's slogan should be "Iss baar sau paar",
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