Nilanjan Mukhopadhyay / ABP News
Addressing a rally in poll-bound Bihar, the Bharatiya Janata Party president, Amit Shah, has said that if his party loses in the state by mistake, then though victory or defeat will be in Bihar, crackers will be burst in Pakistan. There are two components to his rather unnecessary assertion. Firstly, he uses the word ‘mistake’. This presupposes the divine right of the BJP to win the ongoing poll and makes rather arrogant comments on the electorate by labelling their decision as ‘wrong’. The basic tenet of a democracy is that political leaders must respect the people’s mandate even if it is against them. Voters, if they reject any party, cannot be accused by it of not having the ability to make the correct decision. Moreover, they also cannot be accused of being guided by extraneous factors while making up their choice.
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One can understand the growing desperation among BJP leaders as the fear of the party not doing too well mounts. The way the campaign had panned out so far, the BJP’s biggest hope now lies in polarising the electorate on every possible line. So why not try out the old strategy and liken the adversary within to the enemy outside? Very rarely has a campaign by a party ruling at the Centre that began by talking about development gone so astray! more
Addressing a rally in poll-bound Bihar, the Bharatiya Janata Party president, Amit Shah, has said that if his party loses in the state by mistake, then though victory or defeat will be in Bihar, crackers will be burst in Pakistan. There are two components to his rather unnecessary assertion. Firstly, he uses the word ‘mistake’. This presupposes the divine right of the BJP to win the ongoing poll and makes rather arrogant comments on the electorate by labelling their decision as ‘wrong’. The basic tenet of a democracy is that political leaders must respect the people’s mandate even if it is against them. Voters, if they reject any party, cannot be accused by it of not having the ability to make the correct decision. Moreover, they also cannot be accused of being guided by extraneous factors while making up their choice.
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One can understand the growing desperation among BJP leaders as the fear of the party not doing too well mounts. The way the campaign had panned out so far, the BJP’s biggest hope now lies in polarising the electorate on every possible line. So why not try out the old strategy and liken the adversary within to the enemy outside? Very rarely has a campaign by a party ruling at the Centre that began by talking about development gone so astray! more
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