Can Pulwama/Hate Crimes save BJP & PM Modi in India’s general election next month? Look very weaker than ever!
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Indian PM Narendra Modi has fanned hate and left the country deeply divided during his rule in India and taken every step for his political profit.
It is his strategy aimed at the systematic exclusion of Muslims from India’s mainstream – eliminating Muslims and other religious communities from the country’s political life.
Kashmiris are threatened, beaten, fired from their jobs and driven out from different cities in India.
In December 2018, the BJP lost a number of key state-level elections, with Congress grabbing clear majorities in Rajasthan and Chhattisgarh and ousting incumbent BJP governments. In a third race, in Madhya Pradesh, Congress also ended a decade and a half of BJP rule.
As the BJP's popularity has faltered, hardline Hindu nationalists have tried to play up divisive issues that have historically fired up the party's right-wing base.
Politics Editor of HuffPost India Betwa Sharma and many other Indian analysts are of the view that Indian Prime Minister Narendera Modi is now using hate crimes and Pulwama to save BJP in next month elections. Kashmiris are threatened, beaten, fired from their jobs and driven out from different cities in India.
Indian writers admit the situation has worst in India than ever as in Ambala and Dehradun, Kashmiri students were given 24 hours to leave. In Patna, traders were told to pack up and leave. In Yavatmal, Maharashtra, Kashmiri students were beaten up. In Nadia, Bengal, a Kashmiri shawl seller was beaten up. Kashmiri shawl sellers in Kolkata were also assaulted. In Mumbai, three security guards were fired for being Kashmiri.
There are reports of 8,000 to 10,000 Kashmiris, mostly students and traders, having returned from other parts to occupied Kashmir.
All the election polls and survey indicate Modi graph has fallen to 50 percent than his previous results of 2014 election.
The Indian General elections, 2019 are expected to be held in April and May 2019 to constitute the 17th Lok Sabha. Legislative Assembly elections in the states of Andhra Pradesh, Arunachal Pradesh, Odisha, Sikkim and Jammu and Kashmir are expected to be held simultaneously with the general elections. Total seats are 543 of Lok Sabha and the winning party will be needed 272 seats for a majority.
The previous general election was held for 16th Lok Sabha in April–May month of 2014 which was won by National Democratic Alliance (NDA) led by Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) under the leadership of the current Prime Minister Narendra Modi by defeating the United Progressive Alliance (UPA) led by Indian National Congress (Congress).
