All Eyes on the Election Results
All eyes on India as close to a billion voters, a country as volatile as a million moving parts, and controversies involving prominent leaders of the main competitive parties in the largest democracy of the world is about to be declared on June 4th. The upcoming election results are broadly dependent upon the Bharatiya Janata Part-led National Democratic Alliance (N.D.A.) and the Congress-led Indian National Developmental Inclusive Alliance (I.N.D.I.A.), which is a collaboration of all prominent opposition parties, including Aam Aadmi Party, Samajwadi Party, Trinamool Congress and other important parties.
The Thoughts and What Lies Ahead for Bharat
No amount of cynicism can measure up to the volatility of the country right now as General elections complete their seven-phase elections for Lok Sabha. Many promises have been laid out by all prominent parties in their manifestoes before the elections commenced, with heavy polarisation and radical outlooks; the world has keen eyes upon the fate of India that is about to unfold in the upcoming days.
Ground reports say that amid the record-breaking heat wave that has taken the country by storm, the Modi wave still prevails and dominates—however, the newly collaborated I.N.D.I Alliance is still busy romanticizing its liaison with the EVM and challenging institutionalized accountability. The incessant clampdown on the opposition parties is threatening the “Mother of Democracy” in India as “Orange” seems to be a partial favorite for the country at large. The concerns have been shared from across borders as the General Elections are tilting more towards the right wing.
The term “400-plus” has been trending how as the Bharatiya Janata Party bleeds in cries of nationalism and the consolidations from the Hindutva mindset. Bold accusations have been made by the party leaders as they out front declare and rename the Congress manifesto as an “imprint of the Muslim League”. The fate of the country that has livelihood issues competing with religious identities in their campaign front runners appears to be bleak and not promising.
Lewd comments made by the leaders of B.J.P. that their target of achieving “400-plus” this general election will help them rewrite some of the Constitution has been concerning tribal communities and other backward classes. The reaction to this comment was swiftly feared by the Prime Minister and was denied during the initial phase of the elections.
It has been seen that there needs to be more fitting leadership in the opposition. They started their election campaign off from a weaker position and with less vigor. The very famous Alliance formed by all significant opposition parties I.N.D.I.Alliance blocs were internally fighting among them on the issue of the sharing formula, and their advancement since then has yet to be substantial.
There is a strong likelihood that the Modi-led Hindu nationalist party will win the elections, which they would use to their full advantage to crush any significant picture of the remaining opposition. Furthermore, conservations and debates in certain parts of the country are not about whether Modi will win the election but instead how many seats they will.
Issues like inflation and unemployment were brought forward by the opposition when The Supreme Court demanded full disclosure of electoral bond data, which was immediately followed by the arrest of Arvind Kejriwal- a very famous leader in the north of India by the E.D. Congress has been playing well with the sentiments of the poor and rural crowd that the Modi government is trying to incorporate socialist dictatorship has instigated fear and seems to be working in the favour of Congress.
Trinamool Congress Leader Mamta Banerjee has turned to gimmicky and absurd methods like dancing on stage with their women leaders from the party ahead of the seventh phase of elections, which is a picture of a desperate government. However, Mamta Banerjee has been seen to claim on multiple occasions that B.P.J. will be overthrown in the Lok Sabha elections in 2024.
The fight is for the 543 seats in the lower house; Lok Sabha, within 2600 registered political parties with almost a billion voters, is the most significant election in the world. The Election Commission of India has appointed 15 million people to facilitate the elections smoothly over a span of 45 days. The question of whether this is the third time Modi will come is power is the most important and asked question, both domestically and internationally.
B.J.P. led manifestoes in the past years which promised big and famous issues like the revocation of the Constitutional guaranteed special status of the state of Jammu and Kashmir and the construction of the Ram Temple in Ayodhya on top of the remains of Babri Masjid has been fulfilled. Now, the attention has shifted to more pressing issues like job creation and poverty alleviation. The unemployment rate among 20-25-year-olds is approximately 50 percent, and the young voters are not happy with those statistics.
The results that are to be declared on June 4th appear to be more right-wing than the left, which is concerning on many levels in today’s scenario. While the Modi government has achieved extraordinarily in terms of geopolitics and strengthened the political standing and dominance of India in international affairs, This Hindu focused nationalist party is the face of a declining democracy, which means that more repressive measures and extremist ideologies to commence with suppression of all walks of free and religion-free protests.
The subject of religious survival is on stake and this nation with the largest population might be distracted with glistened promises and fancy P.R. from time to time, but one thing that history has taught us is India always takes what it is due and we for one, are eager to see who the country has voted for and how it will affect the future of this great nation.
