Payment for karma cannot be avoided.

2021 is going to be electorally tough for the BJP, the party of Prime Minister Narendra Modi, feels SA Aiyar. "The biggest battle will be in West Bengal, where the BJP will lose despite high hopes after a great Lok Sabha performance in 2019. Along with its local ally, the AIADMK, the BJP will be thrashed in Tamil Nadu and Puducherry. It will also, as usual, be drubbed in Kerala. Only in Assam are its re-election prospects good." "The footprint of the BJP over Indian states has been shrinking since 2018." "The BJP's electoral success is largely attributed to Mr Modi's charisma and the politics of religious polarisation and strident nationalism," wrote Soutik Biswas. "In recent years, the BJP has also thrived on generous and 'opaque' funding', and the unwavering support of a wide swathe of uncritical mainstream media." "Till the farmers brought their trolleys, tractors and their protest to the borders of Delhi, Narendra Modi had the image of being the the most powerful Prime Minister of India ever," wrote Tavleen Singh. "For the first time in seven years he is beginning to look weak. Not just because the farmers openly attack him personally on national television but because he seems no longer to know what to do." Farmers, mainly from Punjab and Haryana, have been protesting on the borders of Delhi for 33 days demanding repeal of 3 farm laws. The problem for Modi is that these farmers are rich and he cannot ignore them contemptuously as he did farmers from Tamil Nadu who desperately wanted help after a vicious drought in 2017. This time, farmers have set up a "protest town with a number of langars providing hot meals, makeshift toilet complexes, medical camps run by NGOs, laundry facilities and sleeping accommodation, whether in tents and in tractor trolleys". "The international non-governmental organisation Khalsa Aid has set up a Kisan Mall at Tikri border in Delhi to provide items of daily use to protesting farmers for free. The racks of the mall are stacked with everything from toothbrushes, soaps, oil, shampoo and vaseline to combs, mufflers, healing pads, knee pads, thermal suits, shawls and blankets." Modi wants to stop NGOs receiving money from abroad but he cannot stop these. "India's tougher rules on foreign funding for non-profits will severely crimp their activities, the chiefs of some bodies said" in September "after human rights group Amnesty International suspended its work in the country, citing government harassment", reported Reuters. There have been protests in London against Modi's treatment of farmers. There have been protests against Modi in the US only 4 months after the euphoria of 'Howdy Modi'. Sikhs are not Muslims, and the present protests could be a turning point for the Modi government, whether he stands firm or he gives in, wrote Prof Mohsin Khan. Modi has employed ruthless violence against anyone daring to oppose him, including inhuman treatment of those shoved into prison on charges of sedition. India is the land of karma and rebirth to pay for it. It will be a long reckoning.