India has become dictatorial.
Please decide what you want to exactly say.
What has that got to do with my post? There is no connection.
You are claiming that a political party is on the verge of getting absolute power despite us being in a democracy. However, at the same time, you are completely blind to Congress's excesses.
The Congress, a party that I do not support, never ever tried to grind the minority Muslim population into the ground, as the present government, and political party in power, and associated cluster of associated organisations is trying to do. It is not the number of seats, but the gross misuse of an electoral majority that is in question.
Let me rephrase:
The BJP, never ever tried to grind the majority Hindu population into the ground, as the previous Congress governments, and political parties in power, and associated cluster of associated organisations were trying to do. It is not the number of seats, but the gross misuse of an electoral minority that is in question.
What the BJP represents is the creative destruction of India as a country.
Wrong. The BJP is awakening the masses, be it Hindu, Muslim, Christian, etc to make them more nationalist.
That implies that the BJP had a greater amount of influence before independence, lost it, and is now recovering it. It is difficult to deal with such arrant falsehoods, as it completely wipes out the negative, pro-British role of the Sangh Parivar, and its rejection of the Indian state, down to the extent of refusing allegiance to the national flag until recently.
The Sangh Parivar had objection with the color of the flag, not with the State per se. I'm sure we can have differing opinions in a democracy. But on my end, I don't support the Sangh Parivar's past decision on the national flag.
That implies that the BJP had a greater amount of influence before independence
Nope, it was the Congress all along.
The BJP, formerly the Jana Sangh, and its associate, the Hindu Mahasabha, are among the most regressive organisations in India today, or yesterday. The question of its covering lost ground is just a verbal deception, intended to conceal its total bankruptcy of ideas or of morals.
Depends on how you look at it. You have decided to completely brush them with one color, I can't do anything with that. You can't ignore the social work they have done and the help they have given to people, be it blood donation drives, planting trees among other things.
Was it you who mentioned that we are a democracy? Do you remember that a democracy involves people voting in an election, and not a method of gaining or losing power through the strength of 'everybody knows'.
How does that negate what I have said. It's through democracy that people have chosen BJP at the centre and that's why 'everybody knows'.
What was 'everyone's' opinion about the Karnataka elections? When last heard, Shobha Karandlaje was predicting 120 seats. I take it that she is not the 'everyone' who is in constant communion with you.
I already mentioned that BJP isn't as strong at the Vidhan Sabha elections as it is at the Lok Sabha. There's still work to be done. And I don't even know who Shobha Karandlaje is.
How?
By buying up elected members, as they have done everywhere else? Including Maharashtra, that you pointed to, with such innocent, prattling pride?
All political parties do that.
Yes, leaders who deny decades old Hindu-Muslim religious coexistence, and create a murderous frenzy out of nothing. You must be proud of them.
The BJP respects the Indian Muslims, they are after all Indians, but not at the cost of the Hindus bending down to them in the name of secularism.
Central agencies for enforcement of financial rules are routinely used for intimidation of journalists, activists, and anyone and everyone opposed to the politics and to the policies of the BJP and the Sangh Parivar.
People are detained for three years without a chargesheet being filed; in the most BJP friendly state, people are killed in public with the obvious collaboration of the local police.
What would YOU define as a dictatorship, since shooting people in public doesn't qualify, since holding people in prison without charges doesn't apply, since hounding the opposition using the Enforcement Director, the CBI, the NIA, even the NCB, doesn't apply, since rushing to promulgate an ordinance to flout a Supreme Court judgement does not apply........
I'm sure even the Congress did this at some point in their tenure. Who can forget the Emergency? Regardless, I'm hoping the BJP brings about development to India ignoring the Opposition's racketeering of India suddenly becoming fascist, dictatorial, etc. That's fine, that's what the Opposition does. It's only thanks to the BJP that people have understood the amount of whitewashing that Congress has done in the name of secularism and minority appeasement. People of the older generation still support Congress but people of my generation are more pro-BJP. And that's what the future is unless the BJP messes up.
in the most BJP friendly state, people are killed in public with the obvious collaboration of the local police.
I don't support this. But these things have been happening for ever and correlating it with BJP is stupid. If you are really worried, first see what Mamata Banerjee is doing to West Bengal where TMC's political goons murder people from other parties.
I rest my case, it's my last argument on this.
