Harsh Vardhan Tripathi
Rahul Gandhi has given a very big issue to Narendra Modi just before the first phase of elections. While speaking during the discussion on the President’s address, Rahul Gandhi said many such things, on which the Bharatiya Janata Party and Narendra Modi could surround the Congress, but Rahul Gandhi’s attempt to describe the nation of India as a group of nations for the Bharatiya Janata Party It was like a wish.
The entire politics of the Bharatiya Janata Party and before that the Bharatiya Jana Sangh has revolved around the nation and nationalism. Ram and nation have been the pivot of Bharatiya Janata Party’s politics and even today, despite everyone’s efforts, everyone’s efforts and now everyone’s faith, the foundation of all this has been Ram and the nation. This politics of Bharatiya Janata Party is called the politics of Hindutva by the media in general context and sometimes it is also called anti-Muslim politics.
In Western publications, the Bharatiya Janata Party is identified as a Hindu party. Ideologically, the Bharatiya Janata Party gets energy from the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh. Both the leaders who rose to the prime minister’s chair as BJP leaders – Atal Bihari Vajpayee and now Narendra Modi – have been campaigners of the Sangh. The entire social and political journey of the Sangh and the BJP has been based on the concept of Mother India. In such a situation, when Rahul Gandhi as a Congress leader raises questions on the nation of India, then Narendra Modi easily gets the issue.
In Uttar Pradesh, the largest and most important state in the five-state assembly elections, in the first phase, elections to 58 assembly seats are to be held on February 10. This time due to the restrictions of the virus, major rallies of Prime Minister Narendra Modi could not be held in Uttar Pradesh or other election states. In the initial phase, even though the analysts said that the Bharatiya Janata Party will benefit the most from the virtual election campaign, but the virtual rally does not have that kind of effect, Prime Minister Narendra Modi has also come to know this very well.
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Now in the President’s address, Prime Minister Narendra Modi, while keeping his point, has filled that shortcoming with great gusto. Prime Minister Narendra Modi said on Rahul Gandhi’s nation that, if India is not a country then why is the name of Congress Indian National Congress. Narendra Modi may have attacked the Congress saying that the Congress is the leader of the tukde-tukde gang, but the Prime Minister’s target was on the Uttar Pradesh elections.
Prime Minister Narendra Modi also praised the work done by the Central and Uttar Pradesh governments during the Corona period and blamed the opposition for all the disturbances during the Corona period by saying that when the world is asked to stay at home. The opposition was spreading corona by taking people out on the streets. Prime Minister Narendra Modi is being accused by the opposition and political analysts that he has behaved like a political campaigner instead of the Prime Minister, but there is another aspect to it.
In fact, Prime Minister Narendra Modi is well aware that his political prestige will be maintained only by electoral victory. Even though the election results of Uttar Pradesh and other four states will not affect his government, but due to the BJP government in four of the five election states, there is a slight decrease in the election results and especially the weakness in the results of Uttar Pradesh directly Narendra Modi. will be added to. That is why Prime Minister Narendra Modi, while replying to the President’s address in Parliament, definitely kept the election campaign in mind.
Apart from this, the Prime Minister also explained in detail all the major programs of his government, including the strengthening of small farmers. By telling about the achievements of his government on the issue of inflation and unemployment, as well as what was the situation in the previous governments, the Prime Minister also tried to weaken the atmosphere on these issues against the Bharatiya Janata Party.
The governments of states like West Bengal, Punjab, Maharashtra and Telangana may be fighting against the Narendra Modi government at the Centre, but Narendra Modi reminded the state governments of the opposition during the Congress governments at the Center and BJP on a democratic scale. He also tried to convey to the people about the betterment of the government. The Prime Minister’s full attention was also on the electoral states.
That is why the Congress had said… saying that while blaming the Gandhi family for familyism, corruption and other disturbances, along with the Kashmiri Pandits, it also blamed the Congress for the massacre of Sikhs. Just before the first phase of elections in Uttar Pradesh, Prime Minister Narendra Modi has completed his election rallies and has tried to remind voters of the work done for the poor during his government, Today, if every section is getting the benefits of development, then the biggest reason for this is the presence of the Bharatiya Janata Party in the Center as well as in the states. Now how effective is the message given to the voters from both the houses of the Parliament like the Prime Minister’s rallies, its result is yet to come.
(The author is a Hindi blogger and political affairs expert)