Road to 2024 | Takeaways of President, V-P polls: BJP’s politics of imagination, Oppn’s divided aims | Political Pulse News,The Indian Express
The BJP’s opponents cannot hope to outdo the formidable Narendra Modi-led political machine by simply harping on the politics of fear or its doomsday predictions or by constantly mocking Modi.
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The Opposition revels in ridiculing the ruling BJP over its description of the Narendra Modi government’s every move as a “masterstroke”. It also rakes up the “politics of fear” as part of its ammunition to fire salvos at the saffron party.
The Modi dispensation’s choice of candidates in the Presidential and the Vice Presidential elections, however, shows that it is the BJP’s politics of imagination that the Opposition needs to master lest it would be outwitted time and again by the ruling party through the art of political symbolism backed by a seemingly compelling narrative.
The BJP’s opponents cannot hope to outdo the formidable Narendra Modi-led political machine by simply harping on the politics of fear or its doomsday predictions – that the government is weakening democracy, stifling free speech, corroding institutions etc. – or by constantly mocking Prime Minister Modi. While there may be genuine worries and apprehensions, the parties would need much more political imagination than betraying a sense of despair to counter the Modi juggernaut.
Much like the term “masterstroke”, the “Opposition unity” has become a cliched phrase in the country’s political lexicon. The Opposition has never been a united camp. And it takes just a little effort by the BJP to splinter its ranks – and that of the Congress-led UPA’s or whatever is left of it. Although the outcomes of the Presidential and Vice Presidential contests are foregone conclusions, there are some key takeaways.
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