A marketing gimmick written in a consumer-appealing marketing style makes every effort to hide the shortcomings and failures in a maze of jargon.
When only five days were left for the start of voting, the current ruling party BJP released its “election manifesto”.The clever, hollow dialogues written in the style of marketing to attract the consumers, the best efforts to hide the non-achievements and failures in a maze of jargon and completely ignoring the difficulties of the public, to entertain them with the illusion of landing the moon in a plateful of water. What remains of this bundle of tried and true lies is the documentary and public admission of the party, which claims to be the largest party in the universe, becoming non-existent and almost extinct in the most vocal form.
In a way, the cycle of transformation of corporate bacteria (bacteria) into virus (virus) by combining with Hindutva has been completed and by changing from Jan Sangh to BJP, it has now given up the pretense of calling itself a political party. That like its parent organization RSS, it has attained the status of monopolist.There is neither any leadership nor any committee, there is Modi in front of Modi, there is Modi behind Modi, Modi is there in the middle. In essence this had already happened. Now this has also been duly recorded in the changed form of the documents of announcements issued before the elections.These announcements for the year 2014 elections were issued with the name of BJP’s election manifesto and the punch line of “Ek Bharat Shreshtha Bharat”, in the 2019 Lok Sabha elections these announcements were issued with the slogan “Resolved India; These became manifesto letters with the phrase “Strong India” and by the time of 2024 elections, India disappeared from the front page, BJP was reduced to small unreadable letters and these became Modi’s guarantee.
This is the digital age – apart from readability, now viewability is also a way of speaking and conveying. In the opinion of many this is a much more effective method, and rightly so. In this respect, a study of the three manifestos of the last 10 years shows interesting differences; The 64-page manifesto of Year 14 had Modi’s picture on the cover and only there.She was also in the middle, flanked by her were Sushma Swaraj and Arun Jaitley and the Chief Ministers of the then 4 BJP ruled states – Goa, Chhattisgarh, Madhya Pradesh and Rajasthan, above all of them were Atal, Advani, Joshi and the then BJP President Rajnath Singh. The 50-page resolution letter of the year 19 had 6 pictures of Modi.But in 2024, the picture has completely changed. In the 69-page guarantee of Modi, on the lines of Lali Dekhoon Lal Ki, Jit Dekhoon Tit Lal, Modi is Modi in 52 different poses, with new posture and new clothes in every picture. This is not just a photo game, it is a statement which shows how within just 10 years, BJP has become the fringes of the fringes and Modi has become famous in place of India.
In parliamentary democracy, elections are contested by political parties, their commitment is theirs and not that of any individual. Not only because the age of the organization is much greater than the age of the individual, but because in parliamentary democracy the party is elected, not the individual, which then has to choose its leader.In the system of parliamentary democracy that has been adopted in India, the leader is not the only one or at the top; Responsibility is collective through the cabinet and the parliamentary party. But BJP – Modi’s BJP – is going to fight the elections in the name of Modi’s guarantee and not on the credibility of the party. BJP is contesting the elections and Modi is giving guarantee. Due to what compulsion this is being done, we will discuss later how dangerous what is being done is and how full of serious apprehensions it is.
The strength of a parliamentary or any form of democratic governance system is proportional to the vitality, effectiveness and respect for other democratic institutions and traditions, as well as the state of democracy within the political parties operating within it. The end of democracy in those parties, especially if it is a party in power, is not only inauspicious and harmful for the democracy of the country, it is also an indicator of its erosion and ultimately the arrival of dictatorship.This is precisely the reason why the shrinking of a party named BJP into a party based on one person is not just a matter of concern for that party or its supporters, it becomes a question to ponder for all those who believe in the safety of democracy. . In this context, the lesson of one of the three warnings given by Dr. Bhimrao Ambedkar in his speech on the day the Constitution was approved – 25 November 1949 – is more relevant and timely today than it was then.Baba Saheb had said that “Putting your powers at the feet of any person – no matter how great he may be – or giving him so much power that he can overturn the Constitution itself is a dangerous situation for ‘Constitution and Democracy’. “Bhakti or personality worship in politics is a sure path to the downfall of the Constitution and resulting dictatorship.”Keep in mind that the people Dr. Ambedkar was talking about were not dwarfs like today’s people, they were giant personalities; Such a person who had spent decades in jail, who had won the freedom struggle and had prepared the map of an all-inclusive India. Dr. Ambedkar and the Constituent Assembly considered it necessary to curb their individualism.Today, even Modi himself cannot say with any guarantee as to which of the guarantees the bundle of guarantees issued by Modi himself claims for the 2024 Lok Sabha elections in his own country – but, If time is given to implement it, it can definitely be a guarantee of bringing dictatorship in this country.The irony is that in India, the world’s largest democracy, this tragic farce named Modi’s Guarantee was staged on April 14, the birthday of the same Baba Saheb who had expressed such apprehensions.
This is not just conjecture, apprehension, negativity or accusation based on political insistence – this so-called manifesto itself confirms it. In the name of its successes in the last five years, it lists the achievements like abolition of Article 370, implementation of CAA and promises to implement Uniform Civil Code in the coming days and bring the law of one nation, one election, paving the way for this dictatorship. There is an announcement to make.This is an attempt to put into practice in a different way what was said by a BJP leader in Karnataka about changing the Constitution. Here once again it is relevant to repeat a sentence from the same speech of Baba Saheb, in which he had said that “No matter how good we make the Constitution, if the people implementing it are not good, it will also prove to be bad.” Today their fears also seem to be coming true when announcements are being made openly to change the form of a secular, democratic, federal republic.What is the intention behind this, BJP President JP Nadda, in a few words spoken on this occasion, stated in more precise words than Modi’s monotonous speech given at the event of releasing the manifesto. He said, “This is the next phase of our ideological journey which has been going on since the time of Jan Sangh.” In this context, he used Modi’s slogan of Sabka Saath, Sabka Vikas, Sabka Vishwas, Sabka Prayas, coming from Deendayal Upadhyay’s Integral Humanism. mentioned.However, even while doing this, he was careful that he should not even by mistake mention the slogan of Gandhian socialism given at the time of the establishment of BJP in 1980. However, there is no need to repeat the ideological journey that the BJP President is talking about from the era of Jan Sangh to today’s BJP and what kind of India has to be made. Modi’s guarantee is an invoice to create the same kind of India.