It’s amazing how thoroughly Modi and the B.J.P. have adopted Trumpism, right down to denouncing the credibility of “leftist” news organizations while lying left and right and stoking sectarian hatred to maintain political power. Of course, Trump, unlike Modi, isn’t a literal genocidaire. Including following the Trump plan of declaring victory over the pandemic and lifting precautions.
Lose in an election, send in the thugs …
Of course, election-related violence is not unknown in India.
The BJP is at the receiving end of the violence in Bengal, as it usually is. Bengal is extremely notorious for election violence. The ruling TMC in Bengal is one of the most fearsomely violent political organizations in India. Ditto the Kerala communists. Countless innocent lives have been lost to these thugs.
Innocent BJP worker Avijit Sarkar was slaughtered Taliban style by your friendly Bengal goons less than 24 hours ago. He live-streamed the slaughter of his dogs minutes before he was similarly slaughtered.
The trigger for the latest election violence is that the Great Whore of Bengal who just won the election was defeated in her own constituency by a little-known BJP candidate.
“Decades in Western journalism” has taped your eyes wide shut.
A slight ray of hope: confirmed cases go down slightluy in worst-hit Delhi and Maharashtra. Too early to say if these gains will be sustained, but I have heard experts say the 2nd wave in India will peak between May 4-8.
@mandala i am stepping in until @colibri is available, because this is an egregious case of bringing politics into the quarantine zone. Please feel free to discuss this stuff over in p&e, but this category is NOT the place for it.
In his/her defense, I kinda started it with a flippant remark. I wasn’t intending it to be overtly political, just more or less making a quick-take observation about how laxness led to a human disaster but I can see how it might have been perceived as a political snipe.
I agree. While there are political aspects of this, this is way over the top. If you want to discuss Indian politics in these terms, take it to GD or the Pit. @mandala, furthermore I am banning you from this thread.