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Rattled   Modi-Shah duo turns belligerent After first phase

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New Delhi, 22 April 2024

Dr Satish Misra

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Alarmed at ground reports of the first phase polling on Friday, the duo of Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Union Home Minister Amit Shah has turned belligerent and have launched a bitter attack against the Congress and Gandhi family. They don’t seem to be shy of going to absurd limits to seek the electorate’s attention and support.  

 

While the Prime Minister fell back on his pet communal card saying that the Congress will redistribute wealth to “those with more children” a clear but indirect reference to Muslims, the Home Minister said in Bihar that there will be riots and atrocities if the Congress and RJD win.  

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The first phase of Lok Sabha polling has alarmed Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Union Home Minister Amit Shah, resulting in a bitter attack on the Congress and Gandhi families.

Modi and Shah have used provocative language, including communal references, to seek electorate attention and support. The BJP has high stakes in the 102 seats that went for polls on April 19, and any loss would make their target of 400 plus seats impossible.

Modi has focused on the Gandhi family and bitterly attacked the Congress, indicating that intelligence reports suggest that the BJP and its allies are likely to lose heavily in these seats.

 Modi has accused the Congress of being a barrier to the development of farmers and poor people and termed the Opposition alliance a grouping of selfish people who have come together to protect their corrupt practices. Observers suggest that intelligence reports have rattled Modi internally, making him insecure and aggressive in his tone and tenor.

It is discernable even to a common person on the street that the use of such words, attack on opponents below the belt and taking out of the communal card by the top BJP leaders including the Modi-Shah duo in particular is a direct outcome of the first phase of polling in which the BJP has high stakes. Any loss in the 102 seats that went for polls in the first phase of polling on 19 April would make the target of 400 plus seats impossible.    

 

Immediately the next day after the first phase of polling, Modi attacked his principal opponent Congress leader Rahul Gandhi in Maharashtra saying that Congress' sahabzade” would lose from the Wayanad constituency in Kerala and would flee from there as he did from Amethi,     

 

The Prime Minister’s focus on the Gandhi family and bitter attack on the Congress is a confirmation that intelligence reports from 102 Lok Sabha constituencies have indicated that the BJP and its allies are on a slippery wicket and are likely to lose heavily in these seats.

 

Addressing a rally at Nanded in Maharashtra to campaign for BJP candidates from Nanded and Hingoli seats, Modi said the information available for the first phase of Lok Sabha polls indicates that there has been a one-sided voting in favour of the National Democratic Alliance (NDA).

 

Referring to Rahul Gandhi, Modi said, “After losing Amethi, the Congress' sahabzade will lose Wayanad as well. So he will have to look for a safe seat after April 26.”

 

In an apparent reference to Sonia Gandhi, he said some INDIA bloc leaders left the Lok Sabha and moved to the Rajya Sabha as they had no courage to contest elections.

 

“For the first time, the family will not vote for a Congress candidate in the constituency where they live as there is no party candidate there,” he said.

 

Modi said he has spent 10 years fixing the bad governance of the Congress regimes. “A lot of work needs to be done,” he added.

 

The Congress has been a barrier to the development of farmers and poor people, he alleged.

 

“The agriculture crisis did not happen now. It happened because of the flawed policies of Congress,” Modi said.

 

Targeting the INDIA bloc, he said it has no face to project and people do not know to whom to entrust the country's future.

 

“They may claim anything, but the reality is that Congress leaders have accepted defeat even before the announcement of polls,” he said.

 

He termed the opposition alliance a grouping of selfish people who have come together to protect their corrupt practices.

 

He appealed to voters to come out in large numbers to exercise their voting rights in the Lok Sabha elections.

 

“You are not doing any favour by voting. You are securing the country's future. I want to boost the morale of the party workers from the opposition. You (opposition leaders) are sure to lose the polls, but you will get a chance someday. But you must appeal to voters to vote,” he said.

 

Modi said the INDIA bloc constituents were contesting the elections against each other in 25 per cent of seats.

 

“After (the election results on) June 4, they will be fighting more with each other,” he said.

 

He said that without the Citizenship (Amendment) Act, what fate would have befallen Sikhs who came from Afghanistan?

 

The NDA under PM Modi is seeking a stronger majority for a third consecutive term, while the constituents of the opposition INDIA bloc are hoping for a rebound after facing reverses in the 2014 and 2019 elections.

 

Observers said that intelligence reports have rattled Modi internally and have infuriated him making him insecure. Tone and tenor along with a choice of words indicate that Modi is going to be more aggressive in the coming days.

 

Former Professor of Political Science at Lucknow University Ramesh Dikshit, who has been a witness of the country’s elections since 1967, said that the prime minister’s choice of words and his body language have always given a clear hint of the direction of the political winds.

 

Since Modi is a “bad loser”, he exposes himself more than any previous prime minister, Dikhit said.

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