"The Centre has called for a special session of Parliament for five days between September 18 and 22. According to sources 'One Nation, One Election' is likely to be one of the key legislations to be taken up during the special session next month." TOI. Why? India's general election is to take place by April 2024 (wikipedia), so why this attempt to interfere in the schedule? Maybe because Mr Modi and the BJP are afraid that they may not win this time. In July, "More than two dozen Indian opposition parties said...that they had formed an alliance called 'INDIA' to challenge Prime Minister Narendra Modi's ruling Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) in parliamentary elections next year." Reuters. President of the Congress Party Mallikarjun Kharge said "the alliance would form a coordination panel, name a convenor and take up the complex issue of farming out seats for parties in the alliance to contest one-on-one against BJP." Having just one candidate in every seat would mean the opposition votes would not be split. Clearly that has spooked the BJP. The investigative agencies have been filing cases of corruption against opposition politicians (HT), which weakens opposition politicians by having to defend themselves in court, as cases drag on in India, and forcing many to join the BJP to make the cases disappear. The BJP has no qualms in accusing people of corruption and then welcoming the same people with open arms and dropping all charges when they switch to the BJP, wrote Vir Sanghvi. If they lose the general election, they lose control of the investigative agencies, and will get their own medicine back. With interest. They are beyond the point of no return. Then, there is the case of Mr Modi's mysterious certificates of higher education. The Gujarat High Court fined Delhi Chief Minister Rs 25,000 for daring to ask to make them public. NDTV. And, there is no audit of the humongous PM-CARES fund. "The controversial PM-CARES fund attracted a donation of Rs 12,691.82 crore (Rs 126.9182 billion) in three years of which Rs 535.43 (Rs 5.3543 billion) were foreign donations, according to an official document." DH. Apparently, "About 80 percent of Indians have a favorable view of Prime Minister Narendra Modi and around seven in 10 Indians believe their country has recently become more influential, according to a survey by the PEW Research Center." NDTV. By holding all elections together national issues may override local ones and Modi's popularity would convert India into a one-party state. But, India is a federation of states, each with its own assembly and government. What happens to state governments elected in the last 3 years? The opposition can go to the Supreme Court but the government will just pass an ordinance to override the Supreme Court, as it did with the Court's judgement on services in Delhi. India Today. Since, no one in India can question the government for fear of being put in prison on fictitious charges, the opposition needs a Hindu, Hindi speaking citizen of a foreign country, preferably the US or Europe, to expose the BJP. Or else, the BJP will win any which way.
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