• Prakash Pohare

When a king becomes powerful, he uses that power alone and starts dreaming of being the greatest ruler of the world. The king starts to believe that everyone should call him ‘God’! It is not that people think like this. But the jesters who have fun around the king start calling him ‘God’. The king starts liking them. Whatever these sycophants say, the king starts believing it to be true. Even the sycophants know what will happen to them if they do not whisper in the king’s ear! This game of power has been played for years. But every time, the king lost due to his incompetence. All the empires in the world did not end in any other way. So, when an empire did not even arise in India, why is the king dreaming of becoming ‘God’?

The reason for repeating all this is the one man ‘Narendra Modi’ who has given the world a new word! He has defined himself as ‘progressive’, ‘regressive’, ‘Sanghi’, ‘Hindutvawadi’, ‘communist’, ‘Marxist’ as well as ‘Modist’. This means that the leader, the party, the philosophy and the country are all included in one word. China used to be communist, America was capitalist, some activists were Marxists. Now by putting this word ‘Modivadi’ in the mouth of the Indian voters, Modi is trying to befool the entire country. Of course, let’s assume that Modi wants to make this country a ‘Modivadi Bharat’! The solid reason for saying this is that ‘Narendra Modi himself was giving a speech to vote for himself. He never took the name of any candidate, neither BJP nor NDA. Not only this, he himself announced that ‘this time, again Modi -Sarkar’ and also gave speeches to reach the number of four hundred.’ If today, due to not getting the majority, he is found uttering the words ‘NDA government’ for the first time in 10 years, then this is a different matter altogether.

In 2014, when Narendra Modi emerged as the Prime Ministerial candidate of BJP, since then democracy within BJP has ended. Not only this, but by putting pressure on the NDA’s constituent parties, he started roaming around saying ‘I, mine and only mine’. Even today, Modi has declared himself as the leader of NDA and BJP parliamentary party. Actually, if there is a party or alliance, then that alliance has a parliamentary institution. That institution has to suggest the name of its chief. Interested candidates put forward their names. Then the election is done by consensus. However, no such process was done here.’ This year’s Lok Sabha election was very different from the 2014 and 2019 elections. In both the previous elections, Modi’s influence was the most influential factor. However, in the current election, Modi’s influence has reduced significantly.

If we look at the situation in Maharashtra, ‘Mahavikas Aghadi’ has won 30 seats in the state this year. Whereas ‘Mahayuti’ got only 17 seats. Congress has won the maximum number of 13 seats in the state. If we look at the whole country, the seats of India Alliance have increased to 232. Also, NDA has won 294 seats in the country. The slogan of crossing 400 has failed. Even though NDA has taken the lead, but NDA has got the lead by a very small margin. ‘Voters have clearly warned that in the next election they will show the way straight home. Undoubtedly, people gave majority to NDA, but this majority was not given to Modi alone or his BJP. It seems that the public has rejected this illusionist magic named Modi’. The deposit of BJP candidates has been forfeited at 27 places in the country. And in Maharashtra, where Modi held 19 rallies, most of the NDA candidates lost except 3 seats, Thane-Shrikant Shinde and Satara-Udayan Raje Bhosale, Pune-Mohol. While in Nagpur, Nitin Gadkari did not even organize any rally of Modi!

‘Nobody in their right frame of mind wanted Modi to come back to power. Even in Varanasi, where Modi himself was contesting, voters almost rejected him. In this election, Modi continuously gave hate speeches. Modi does not walk the talk.’ For example, in ‘Mann Ki Baat’, he expressed sympathy for the people who left Mumbai, many places in Maharashtra, to their villages in Uttar Pradesh, Bihar after demonetisation. But no effort was made to make their journey less difficult and take less time. On the contrary, he alleged that ‘the Maharashtra government (of Uddhav Thackeray) did not stop those who came with Covid infection from Uttar Pradesh’! Modi never admits his mistakes. Not only were tear gas shells fired on the farmers’ march, but cold water was sprayed on them in the winter, pits were dug in their path, sharp nails were laid. Modi says in Parliament that more than 700 farmers have died, but he does not know about it. That is why Modi is arrogant, he wants the limelight for himself all the time. He has made arrangements that all the media will keep following him. All this is dangerous for the country. One who wants public welfare will never try to hide his deeds. ‘Modi does not agree that while planning development, real figures of employment, production, state of industries, agriculture and farmers are necessary. In fact, the progress of the country is not possible by denying the figures that tell the truth. Due to the misleading image created by the media, wrong perceptions will remain for some time, but the country will keep moving towards a worse situation. Recognizing this, the public did not give majority to Modi’s BJP.’

Today when Rajnath Singh boldly proposed the name of Narendra Modi as the parliamentary leader of NDA and BJP, some other big-mouthed leaders of BJP supported his name and approved the proposal. At that time, Nitin Gadkari did not even stand up, the video of that meeting has come out. Reason, Nitin ji belongs to Atal Ji’s and Advani Ji’s BJP. He believes in parliamentary democratic system. He has also proved this with his achievements and character till now. However, an army of sycophants has been prepared in today’s Modi party, that is why today we are seeing a situation like ‘Raja bole, daadhihaale’ in BJP.

There is no doubt that Modi has not behaved in accordance with parliamentary democracy in the last ten years. Narendra Modi, along with Amit Shah, has used a different agenda, which democracy did not expect at all. During this period, Narendra Modi (and of course Amit Shah) followed the same policy at the government and party level. Opposition parties started getting contempt. ‘In democracy, the opposition is a weapon that strengthens democracy, but in Modi-festival it was termed as ‘traitor’. Narendra Modi behaves as if he is the king of this country. Modi has gone to the extent of considering himself a part of God’! Since 2014, BJP means Modi and Modi means BJP. No, it is becoming more solid day-by-day. Earlier it was ‘Ab ki baar Modi sarkar’. From there, the journey has gone from ‘Modi ki guarantee’ to ‘Modi is God’s incarnation’. And now Modi himself has started saying that ‘God has sent me here for some purpose, my work is still left, I will remain in power until it is completed!’

At present, Narendra Modi is going to become the Prime Minister for the third time with the support of two big parties and many small parties. After the Lok Sabha election results, Nitish Kumar and TDP Chief Chandrababu Naidu have emerged as ‘Kingmakers’. NDA got 293 seats out of 543, while India Alliance managed to get 233 seats. BJP remained short of majority with 240 seats, but the NDA led by it got the majority. If it had not touched the magical figure of 272, it could have formed the government on its own. In this way, ‘the entire NDA including BJP is currently dependent on Telugu Desam Party of Andhra Pradesh and Janata Dal (United) of Bihar.’

However, this raises a question. How will the ‘self-proclaimed’ Narendra Modi run a coalition government? Looking at his 10-year tenure, it has been found that the situation has been ‘whatever I say is right’. Now both TDP and JDU will not be able to survive with such a careerist Modi. In the last ten years, Modi has not had to share power with any leader or party. The ‘NDA’ government came to be known as the Modi government.’ Anyway, now Modi will have to run a coalition government, but looking at his nature, it seems very difficult. Because this is neither BJP nor NDA, running at the behest of Adani, on the face of Modi and through Shah, but it is the ‘Amosha’ party!!! Therefore ‘this government will not last long, soon the power will come to India Alliance, this is a white line engraved on a black stone!’(something obvious to happen!)

‘Democracy depends only on a strong opposition party and the beginning of real democracy in the country has started. So just wait and watch!’

(The author is the Editor of Marathi daily ‘Deshonnati’, Hindi daily ‘Rashtra Prakash’ and weekly ‘Krishkonnati’)

The author can be contacted on 9822593921.