I have very little knowledge of India, but thought it might be interesting. I’d love to hear an informed comrade opinion.
I am not really informed on the most current state of Indian politics but my own gut feeling is that this is very unlikely to work. The BJP has entrenched itself pretty firmly from what i have seen so far. This would be like trying to oust Erdogan in Turkey. Despite some significant discontent they both unfortunately still have a very solid base of support, their opposition is weak and the electoral system in many places is heavily rigged in the ruling party’s favor. The advantage in India is that due to its being a federal state there are regions where the BJP just can’t and won’t make any inroads as the local governments there tend to also be very strong, and some of them are quite far left such as Kerala in southern India.
I don’t think they have a shot. A lot of the members of this coalition are opportunistic political parties with no coherent ideology. Their goal is likely to prevent a BJP majority in national elections but BJP and Modi are still popular. People have no faith in parties like Congress whose neoliberal pillaging is the reason why the country slid into fascism in the first place.
It would be nice if they succeed though. But I think that’s unlikely.
Edit: To emphasise my point, most of these parties don’t have a problem with the BJP being a Hindu nationalist party wielding the fascist state apparatus to the benefit of mega corporations. They are just mad that they are the ones that don’t get to do this. Even disregarding the fact that incidents like the Naxalbari uprising took place during Congress rule, these parties have started exhibiting their Hindu pride ever since BJP made Hindu nationalism fashionable.
Why does Modi have the highest approval rating of any world leader? It baffles the mind. Do you think that this figure is fabricated or does he really control some kind of charismatic ideological apparatus?
We Indians need to oust Modi before he turns India into a civil war state. But Indians don’t have good knowledge about European fascism just as the Chinese .
Yes, Brother. It our last chance to save our Country.
How’s the opposition situation in India? Any socialists? Or is it as infected with west-brained liberals as elsewhere?
socialists are minor in scale , well our libs are kind of opportunists and idiots , they can become BJP v2.0 when time comes.
BJP can manipulate both voters and their votes by the use of Media and EVM hacks. So it’s gonna be real tough for opposition, however organized they are.
