India hosts 1.4 billion people, with diverse cultures and religions as its beauty, and is recognized as the world’s largest democracy but since the last decade, BJP has acted as a termite for the secularity of India, and its beauty turned into a tumour. BJP’s politics is based on Hindutva ideology and Modi left no stone unturned to impose Hindutva policies.
For Modi, the religion card is the king of all the political cards. He muzzled the media, snatched the independence of the judiciary, and subjugated minorities to transform India from a secular to a Hindu state, from a liberal to an illiberal democracy. Despite these efforts, the Indian public tried to save their almost-dead democracy through ballot boxes and managed to get their democracy back from the brink of death.
Recent elections made it evident that India’s democracy and democratic-minded people are still alive. The staggering results have changed the Indian political landscape. The slogan of 400 seats of BJP has been razed as they lost 63 seats and their alliance NDA lost 60, compared to previous elections which makes it explicit that the public has rejected the Hindutva narrative, ultimately rejected the idea of a Hindu state.
Indians have realized that for Modi, the public is just the grantees of schemes, not citizens endowed with rights. Congress rolled back in the game by 99 seats and its alliance INDIA secured 232 seats, only 8 short of BJP’s total through a successful electoral campaign as the opposit.