Despite the COVID-19, the economic crisis, the anger of the peasants, the party of the Indian people comes victorious from the intermediate regional elections in key states of the country.
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The ballot was considered a decisive test before the general elections that will take place in two years, in 2024. The Party of Narendra Modi, the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP, Party of the Indian People) retains the Uttar Pradesh, the The most populous state of India, with 230 million inhabitants. This is the first time in three decades, that a government is renewed in that state, which sends the highest contingent of deputies to the Lower House of the National Parliament. The outgoing team led by an extremist Hindu monk, Yogi Adityanath, recorded a clear victory by taking 273 of the 403 seats of the Assembly.
These results show that the popularity of MODI is not started despite the catastrophic management of the CVIV-19 crisis, which has done in independent studies between 3.2 million and 3.7 million deaths; not started by spite of inflation, unemployment, the loss of purchasing power of the middle class and the poor and this despite the peasant wrath that spoke for more than a year at the gates of the capital.
This victory also reinforces – and it is the most disturbing for the defenders of secularism, secularism in the Indian – the implementation of Hindutva, a supregist ideology that promotes an India Hindu to the detriment of other religions. , starting with Muslims. Yogi Adithyanath has been employed in five years. The result of elections makes it a possible successor of Narendra Modi.
“The turn has further strengthened”
Before the counting of the voices, the Leader of the Opposition, Akhilesh Yadav, who led the Uttar Pradesh for five years until 2017 and who arrives in second position, accused the BJP of having moved machines voting to manipulate them. But the bjp victory is massive: it also carries three other states: Goa, Manipur and Uttarakhand.
“The results combine a model of governance that combines the politics of the strong man, the religious, community and populist attraction that works despite deep economic difficulties, says Gilles Verniers, Professor of Political Science at Ashoka University Near Delhi. This sends the message that a party led by a strong man can be politically efficient without necessarily tackling the structural problems that affect the economy or the situation of unemployment. “
For The Wire, an independent information site, these regional elections indicate that “the decisive turn to the right of Indian politics has further strengthened. On the other hand, the Congress Party [main opposition party] n. ‘showed no sign of renewal. It lacks ideological clarity and seems to be directed by leaders without direction, more interested in the attention of the media than by the conquest of voters “.
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