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VOL. 6, ISSUE 5 (2020)
Rise of bharatiya janata party as single majority party in Modi’s era: A review
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Lalit Kumar Sharma
Abstract
Politics, like money, never sleeps. Nor does Narendra Modi or so it seemed in 2019 Modi government, when the Prime Minister was perennially in fast-forward mode, working punishing hours even on holidays and setting a scorching pace that his colleagues and rivals found hard to match. Modi offered himself at the head of ‘a Majboot Sarkar’ since 1980 when the Congress sought votes in Indira Gandhi’s name, had a political party given primacy to an individual leader and his presumed transformational leadership over and above any other calculus. The BJP to rise from two seats in the Lok Sabha in 1984 to 303 in 2019, and vote share of 7.7 percent to 48 percent today. BJP solo score can compare well with the popular sympathy vote caused by Indira Gandhi assassination in 1984 giving the Congress the highest 415 seats and 49.10 percent vote share. The outcome of the poll proved to be a landmark not just for Prime Minister Narendra Modi, but in India’s electoral history as well. Modi led his party to a clear majority with the BJP winning 303 seats on its own and its allies winning another 50 seats to take the NDA tally to 353 in the 545 members Lok Sabha not since Indira Gandhi’s back to back majorities in the 1967 and 1971 elections. In Modi quest for re-election, was ably assisted by BJP president Amit Shah, with whom he shares a guru-shishya relationship. Far from being complacent after the 2014 victory, Shah honed the party into an even more formidable fighting machine, its strength reaching 110 million in August 2019, making it arguably the largest democratic political party in the world. Modi’s action to abrogation of Article 370 of the constitution which conferred special autonomy on J&K, ensuring closure on the Ayodhya Ram Mandir issue, setting up a National Register of Citizen & NRC (in future) to weed out illegal immigrants, particularly the large number of Bangladesh Muslims, amending the citizenship Act to help Hindu refugees from neighbouring countries become Indian citizens and establishing a uniform civil code, is urgent for nation because, between 1951 and 2011 censuses the Muslim population grew about 36 percent faster per year then the Hindu population numbers that Hindi activists have used to argue that India has an illegal (Muslim) immigration from neighbouring Muslims counties.
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Pages:132-137
How to cite this article:
Lalit Kumar Sharma "Rise of bharatiya janata party as single majority party in Modi’s era: A review". International Journal of Humanities and Social Science Research, Vol 6, Issue 5, 2020, Pages 132-137
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