It is through the performative details that the electorate makes sense of what could be the possible difference between parties and the leaders.īJP, as is evident now, is not efficient in governance and with a thin talent pool cannot pursue neoliberalism as a sustainable policy-frame as the Congress did under Manmohan Singh. The focus has therefore moved more to personalities – individual leaders, ‘dynasty politics’, oratory, and personal lifestyles and biographical details.
On their part, the leaders and public representatives no longer find it difficult to defect from one party to the other as it seems to hardly matter and their political appeal remains the same.Īlso read: In TMC’s National Brand-Building Spree, Varied Backgrounds of Its Inductees Have Unique Weightĭefection is not the issue but the larger stalemate in political imagination is the real crisis. They seem to be struggling to establish a more substantial difference between parties and find the markers they need to use to correctly and convincingly vote for a particular party. The electorate is trying to make sense of the competitive politics within this overarching seamless continuity. Regional parties on the other hand are struck with the neoliberal agenda and looking at ways of balancing a pan-Indian Hindu identity with regional characteristics. While the Congress has expanded its welfarism with temple-hopping and claims to authentic Hindu identity with a j aneu-dhari leader, BJP has been attempting to toy with rhetoric of welfarism with aggressive neoliberalism. At present, each of these blocks is learning from and emulating the other. They designed welfarism to meet the exigencies of electoralism. They introduced various innovative welfare policies for farmers, students, youth, minorities, Dalit communities and women.
In response to these two consensus-making exercises, regional parties have introduced transactional welfarism as their mainstay. The other national party, Bharatiya Janata Party, managed in the last seven years to bring a consensus on social imagination to a point where all major parties are vying for space within the limits of a majoritarian cultural nationalism and becoming part of a process of ‘competitive Hindutva’. Protest Across Nagaland Against Killing Of 14 Civilians Under Mistaken Identity And Demand Probe By Retd.The Congress party has brought a consensus around the neoliberal model of development to the point where there is no difference on economic policy between different political parties. Home Minister Amit Shah Says, Nagaland Firing Incident A Case Of ‘Mistaken Identity’, Govt. India-Russia Sign 28 Pacts And Discusses Regional And Global Issues In 21st Indo-Russia Annual Summit In the last assembly election BJP begged 312 seats out of 403 seats assembly seats.
It is strange that bulldozing of property of mafia and criminals hurts SP and Congress.”īhartiya Janata Party (BJP) wants to ensure to get three hundred plus seats in the upcoming 2022 assembly election in UP.
Yogi added that the people of Azamgarh were developing the cities where the migrated but unfortunately their own home remained undeveloped.ĬM Yogi said, “we have cracked down on mafia and criminals and bulldozed their illegal properties worth Rs. He said that Bhartiya Janata Party (BJP)’s state govt. People of the district were denied accommodation in hotels and dharmshala in the country due to tag.
He said that the image of the Azamgarh had become as ‘Atankgarh’.ĬM Yogi said that Azamgarh suffered a lot during the SP rule as that party patronise criminals. Poor and businessmen were living under the shadow of fear.
122.43 crore in Azamgarh on Monday, alleged Samajwadi Party(SP) chief Akhilesh Yadav for making Azamgarh ‘a stronghold of criminals’ and for putting its identity into crises.ĬM Yogi alleged Akhilesh Yadav for making Azamgarh a house of professional criminals and ‘mafia’. The Chief Minister of Uttar Pradesh, Yogi Adityanath during the inaugural event of 37 development projects with estimated cost of Rs.