In other words you could not explain in simple words what Modi meant.
I agree that socialism in India after 1947 was not partly a coherent movement, separating into the Naxalite guerrilla movement and the various public parties, many of them electoral parties and with differing manifestos and agendas.
Even the socialist government of Afghanistan in the 80s withstood years of war. And we see the socialist government of Syria currently withstanding nine years of war.
The socialists / communists of India should revisit their thinking and plan for the next five years.
But I will ask you about your mention of voters in Bengal switching over from Left to BJP, are most of these voters really that thoughtful ? Do they know that though Bengal is not among the top agricultural states it is the place where there is least farmer suicide compared to the other extremely capitalist states that BJP rules or plans to rule ? Does this new Bengali BJP electorate realize that in little Cuba the healthcare system is free ( and is world renowned ) while in top economy India people have to depend on precarious crowdsourcing for their lakhs-costing lung cancer treatment ?
The Left's goondaism you say. What about the below defining photo from this year's Delhi riots, with so many Hindutvadis setting upon a lone Muslim man ?
What do you think about the industrialization of the USSR ? A ( socialist ) space power it was too with the first human in space in 1961 while extremely capitalist India supposed to achieve the first self-launched Indian in space in 2022.
Sadly, the most vociferous people and tendency in India has been of right-wing trolls who don't give a moment to think about that migrant laborer woman who died of hunger at that Bihar railway station just because she didn't have India's defining necessity - money, while the same trolls propagate nonsense ideas like "Thaali bajao, Corona bhagao" like
this mad woman. And these trolls are called educated in India.
Well, Obomba is no man of peace but he was right on the current prominent atmosphere in India.
That article is a bunch of biased nonsense.
A true UCC will trouble the Hindutvadis more.
Should we really resort to such jokes ?