Wednesday, December 13, 2023

Forget PM, go for agencies.

"The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP)...won big in the Hindi heartland, wresting Rajasthan and Chhatttisgarh from the Congress while comprehensively beating anti-incumbency in Madhya Pradesh." " However, the grand old party achieved significant success in southern India, wresting Telangana from K Chandrashekar Rao's Bharat Rashtra Samiti." HT. "Prime Minister Narendra Modi hailed the BJP's victories in three heartland states as an endorsement of his policies and a sign of a hat-trick win in the 2024 general elections." HT. The next general election in India must be held by May 2024. wikipedia. Mr Modi is already claiming victory. Why such confidence? Because the central government controls the Enforcement Directorate (ED), the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) and the Income Tax Department (IT), and the BJP is the central government. "In a bid to disrupt the opposition's election work, the ED, CBI and income tax intensified raids on its leaders, including candidates. They were harassed and put under strain while not a single BJP leader was subjected to similar treatment," wrote P Raman. Then, there are the shady Electoral Bonds. "As per the Association for Democratic Reform, the BJP was the biggest beneficiary of the Electoral Bonds Scheme. It bagged Rs 5,272 crore (Rs 52.72 billion) out of a total of Rs 9,188 crore (Rs 91.88 billion)." The present Lok Sabha consists of some 40 parties, 17 of them with just one seat. wikipedia. The BJP has absolute majority with 290 seats and the Congress is second with just 48 seats. 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 BJP in parliamentary elections next year." Reuters. The problem is that each regional satrap wants to be the prime minister. Problem for them is that most parties are restricted to just one state - the DMK in Tamil Nadu and the TMC in West Bengal. Only the Congress is recognised all over India as shown by its victory in Telangana, with absolute majority of 64/119 seats while the BJP trailed in with just 8." Zee. Every opposition leader must realise that the most important thing is to get control of the ED and CBI and investigate who was buying Electoral Bonds and smash the crony capitalism. If they want a true federal republic they must merge all taxes and then divide the total between the Centre and the states. In December 2022, "The finance minister informed the share of surcharges and cesses in the Centre's gross revenue has gone up from 8.6% in 2010-11 to 28% in 2021-22." TNIE. This is not shared so the states are being robbed. Just as candidates have to reveal the source of their own income as well as those of spouse and children (ET), they must show the original certificates of degrees they claim to have earned (TOI). The opposition must run a concerted campaign from abroad, preferably the US. An investigation by the Washington Post has disclosed that an organisation called Disinfo Lab has been targeting critics of Mr Modi  and was set up by 39-year old Dibya Satpathy, an officer of the Research and Analysis Wing (RAW). The Hindu. However, two senior officers of the RAW were asked to leave and "RAW was also blocked from replacing its station head in Washington DC." The Print. Now they cannot take out anyone in the US. As they tried with Pannun. Forget prime minister. Get control of the agencies. There's no time.

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