Election Results 2024: Narendra Modi vs. Rahul Gandhi: Who Emerges As Gainer? The weekend’s exit polls had the nation buzzing that BJP would make a cleaning sweep for a third consecutive term. But results show the opposition is closely tailing and won’t give up with a definite fight. Riding on the wave of nationalism and Hindutva, the BJP managed to rule India for two consecutive terms 2014 – 2019, 2019 – 2024.
Tides are set to change, and Congress makes a comeback on the promise of equality, jobs, a decent standard of living, and much-needed transparency. Its 2024 manifesto Haath Badlega Halaat highlighted that in the last 10 years, youths have lost jobs, citing an unemployment rate of 8%, farmers protesting on the highways for their rights, traders have lost business because of excessive tax revenues, and marginalized communities have been pushed further back.
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India Basks In Hatred and Intimidation
The Congress spotlighted the prevailing climate of fear, intimidation, and hatred in India. It said every section of the people, in the last five years, has lived in fear with investigating agencies being weaponized to intimidate people. The party pointed the finger at the ruling party, saying the BJP and its affiliates have spread hatred among the people belonging to different religions, languages and caste groups.
Putting the spotlight on the widening gap between the rich and the poor, Congress said inequality between the rich, the poor and the middle classes has increased sharply. It shared a report ‘Income and Wealth Inequality in India 1922-2023: The Rise of the Billionaire Raj’ stating that India under Prime Minister Narendra Modi is more unequal than even under the British Raj. Moreover, the national income earned by India’s top 1% is today at its highest historical levels, and is among the highest globally.
Congress believes India may no longer be a truly free and democratic republic under BJP rule. It said democracy has been hollowed out, and the country is rapidly sliding becoming a one-party and one-person dictatorship. The party stated that India’s federal structure is under attack with the central government appropriating most of the central revenues, passing laws on subjects that were hitherto left to the state governments, and using its financial and executive powers to reduce states to municipalities.
BJP Puts Forth Narendra Modi’s Guarantee
The BJP Manifesto Modi ki Guarantee 2024 reached out to the youth for Viksit Bharat, and becoming aatmanirbhar (self-reliant). The ruling party stated that this is a big change from the atmosphere of desperation and frustration that the nation experienced in the decade before 2014 because of corruption, policy paralysis, and misrule by the government. BJP said India under its rule transformed from a Fragile Five nation to one of the top 5 economies of the world. This transformation is attributed to development and BJP’s mantra – Sabka Saath, Sabka Vikas, Sabka Vishwas, and Sabka Prayas.
The Bharatiya Janata Party believes India’s growth came from the drastic socio-economic transformation seen in the lives of women, farmers, fisherfolk, street vendors, small entrepreneurs, SC, ST, and OBC communities. The ruling party promises to take India into the top 3 economies of the world, open up newer avenues of growth in various sectors, intensify the battle against corruption, and reforms
