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BJP can even lead in a foreign country where less than 10% are Indians

I usually avoid responding to singular tweets, but this one from the Union Minister of Parliamentary Affairs cannot be ignored. It is the right of every opposition party, in fact every citizen to question all the arms of government. Calling it an attack on democracy is against the very grain of democracy. This idea propagated by the present government that the entire opposition is a negative force is the real threat to democracy.

Modi's Great Nicobar Project SCAM

Twelve years wasted on PR stunts, photo ops, and endless foreign trips, nothing to show where it actually matters.

One of the more entertaining privileges of living in India is watching our unlettered rich and powerful perform socio-political analysis. These are men who built empires through connections, contracts, and the occasional government favour and have somehow confused that with wisdom. So when a prominent industrialist puts out a piece explaining why the BJP juggernaut will keep rolling, it's worth spending five minutes dismantling it. Because it falls apart in about that long. The framing is clean, I'll give him that. Clean in the way a card trick is clean. It looks elegant until you see where the cards went. His argument rests on a 50-50 split: BJP owns Hindu nationalist identity, which is roughly half the country, and everyone else is scrambling for the other half. Therefore BJP wins. Forever. Ameen. Summa-Ameen. Except the 50-50 is made up. BJP's actual ideological base, the RSS-mobilised, Hindutva-committed voter who is there regardless of candidate, regardless of price of onions, regardless of anything, is closer to 20-25%. The rest of their coalition is caste arithmetic, welfare delivery, regional anti-incumbency, and Modi's blind cult following. A significant chunk of their voters are OBC and Dalit voters with concrete material grievances who backed BJP for concrete material reasons. They are not ideological soldiers. They can be peeled away. They have been peeled away. So the first constant in his equation, the one he treats like holy scripture, is false. But even that isn't the biggest problem. The bigger problem is that he treats opposition fragmentation as a law of nature rather than a political failure. He looks at fifteen parties jostling for the same space and concludes: this is permanent, this is structural, BJP wins by design. Read that again slowly: BJP wins because the opposition hasn't solved a coordination problem. That's it. That's the whole secret. There is no juggernaut. There's a fragmented opposition handing over seats they should be winning. UP 2024 made this embarrassingly clear. When SP and Congress actually ran together, with some semblance of coordination and clarity, they won 43 seats in a state BJP had treated as a fortress. The juggernaut didn't wobble. It fell on its face in the one place where the opposition briefly got its act together. And here's what our industrialist friend also conveniently skips: BJP isn't dominant because it owns an ideological half of India. It's dominant because it has a machine. The RSS is the fuel, the cadre, the penetration, the ground structure that no opposition party can match. That's the real asymmetry. Not some metaphysical ownership of Hindu identity. Now, our industrialist friend could have asked the genuinely interesting question hiding inside his own argument: why hasn't the opposition solved this coordination problem in a decade? That would have been worth reading. The answer is partly structural, partly the ego of regional satraps who'd rather rule their fiefdoms than challenge nationally, and partly a failure of political imagination. Had he asked that question, he might have earned his seat at the table of serious political commentary. Instead, he built a tidy little argument with a predetermined destination, one that just happens to conclude that the party he has never found reason to criticise is invincible by the laws of mathematics. That's not analysis. That's propaganda written with CAPITAL letters. (No pun intended)

And you take them and their reasonings through “5 whys” and they will be reduced to their bigotry- everything right if Abdul is right!

@catale7a And you take them and their reasonings through “5 whys” and they will be reduced to their bigotry- everything right if Abdul is right!

A large section of 'educated' Indians are being brainwashed with this line "If anyone else is PM, India would be doing a lot worse than what it is today" We all have such friends or relatives, don't we?

H2O is a western construct, in Bharat we call it Neer, Jala, Pani @jsaideepak's word salad explained with India's Ugly Caste History

The Guy is an assistant in OpIndia He is telling this is the last chance to save Bengal? Save Bengal from what? -Bengal GDSP is around 8% better than Bihar, Rajsthan, Haryaana, MP -Per capita is better than Bihar & UP -Strong women participation better than UP Bihar Harayana & Rajashtan -Bengal has strongest MSME sector It's the Leading producer of rice,Jute, fish & potato -Bengal Ranks 2 in Foreign Tourist arrival -Lowest regional discrimination -Ranks better than Up Bihar rajsthan MP in poverty allievation index Wtf you want to Bengal from mf? Bengal only needs to be protected from BJP disease.

In Bengal -Girl posted "No vote to BJP" on FB -Bhakt threatened her with rape on her post -Instead of staying silent,she went to his house & confronted him - Bhakt got scared & apologized to her publicly Peak Satisfaction watching Bengali girl giving belt treatment to Bhakt

That ₹15 lakh from 2014 is worth ~₹23 lakh today, based on USD-INR exchange rate alone, without adjusting for inflation. Just saying.

@ImGulshangaurav @patralekha2011 Strange are the ways of those who claim to lean right of centre. They take immense pride in their glorious past and cultural legacy, yet often resent people who appreciate their heritage — simply because they refuse to give their pa a free pass.

@patralekha2011 Remember a Bengali artist house razed in bangladesh, same will happen here, just keep living in your delulu

@hehehashdele @patralekha2011 Hey why do you bother about women welfare? I have seen you trolling women by calling them “rand”. I am sure you have cognitive impairment to understand morality. But I tried.

@patralekha2011 Yes

@kalt_mozart @patralekha2011 Why r u getting jealous darling? Why the jitters?

@patralekha2011 Bhadralok commie TMC goon

@ashwinikc @patralekha2011 हमें तो अपनों ने लूटा गैरों में कहाँ दम था… मेरी कश्ती डूबी वहाँ जहाँ बिहारी भैया ज़्यादा बांग्लादेशी कम था।

@patralekha2011 Exactly 👍 Muzzis from Bangladesh keep on attacking the identity of Calcutta & West Bengal.

@a1286_a @patralekha2011 Difficult. Too many migrant North Indians!

@patralekha2011 Also just clean that place! Its the dirtiest place!

@BlazingLagoon @patralekha2011 Yeah we all get it. “Over educated” stinks of your inferiority complex. What to do when you Pa is just 4th fail and chachus are all school dropouts. Everything becomes “left” for the cognitive impaired people masquerading as “right” without even knowing what it entails…

@patralekha2011 The same Satyajit ray who installed leftist communist ideologies in Indian cinema. Typical over-educated Bengali smelly aunty. Will do anything to defend her hellhole.

@vsuda @patralekha2011 Hey in India “centre right” only indicates that you are a pervert porn peddler when it comes to supporting the only “right” party in India today. Your love and concern for women is triggered only when you need to attack people or state not towing the hatred of your Pa!

@patralekha2011 Calcutta should queue up in front of homes of women who have been raped by TMC goons to assure them that Calcutta stands by them. Pay tribute to the living too.