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Calling Modi

Various commentators have given a lot of reasons for your party’s poor performance in recent elections. I feel the main reasons for your party’s failure are, "Arrogance and overconfidence" of its leaders and ignoring party workers."I hope by now you and the party have learnt a lesson and have started resetting the party agenda. You developed idea of making Ram temple will ensure your Hindu vote bank. You misunderstood Hindu mind set. Hindu is no nationalist by any standard, plus he easily falls for false propaganda and has a mindset of getting freebies. Your election campaign divided Hindus into Brahmins, Thakurs, OBC/ ST etc. Net result of this was vote division in Hindus. It should be a great matter of concern for BJP that it did not even win the Ayodhya seat. Even you got far less votes this time compared to 2019. If you do not reset the agenda for BJP now, BJP will be nowhere in 2029. Modi sahib you are compromising too much both domestically and internationally. You will never be acknowledged as an international leader by the west. See how much the west spend monetarily and socially to defeat you. They nearly succeeded in their mission. At least they have dented your base in the country. Now your enemies at home feel that you are not invincible. At home you did a lot to please Muslims. Did they vote for you? They have ideological animosity with you and your party. You are appeasing those who are your core opponents.

These election results were for a change, but you have retained same team and same agenda. "Sab ka sath , sab ka vikas" slogan needs to redefined. You cannot treat both friends and enemies at same footing. If you stick to your party’s old agenda that will serve you and nation far better than your present policy. You are being labelled "Hindu nationalist" by your opponents. Why don’t you tell them that you did nothing for Hindutva. You gave Hindus, a hope and did nothing more than that. You had great opportunity in last elections [ 2019] to do many things but you bugged opportunity. You did not have guts to acknowledge publically that there has been genocide in Kashmir and GOI abdicated in their responsibility to protect KP.

One cannot expect you to do wonders now in coalition govt but you could do following with ease provided you show intend :--

1. Temples of Hindus should get out of govt control. If mosques/churches etc are out of govt control, why are temples under govt control? What type of freedom of religion, secularism are we teaching?
2, Parliament passes resolution saying there has been genocide in Kashmir valley. We KP’S don’t need your freebies/ monetary packages.
3.Veneration of looters/ murderers who ruled India should be banned.
4.Help in unification of all sections [CASTES] of Hindus. That will indirectly consolidate your vote bank.

Don’t spoil Kashmiri’s with extra money. Coming assembly elections in valley will tell you how much Kashmiri Muslim loves you. As of today, it is a million dollar question!. Revival of culture should be priority over economy. Both are important. If culture survives India survives. If culture dies down, no amount of economic progress will help India to survive.
JAI HIND

*Dr. Makhan Lal Babu, Born and brought up in Kashmir, lived in Kashmir till his migration from valley in 1990. Retired as Professor and Head Neurosurgery from Institute of Medical sciences, Soura, Srinagar. Has published a lot of professional articles, both in national and international journals. His interests, besides medicine, are in Ancient history of Kashmir, Vedas and Ancient India. His focus is educating youth who are fast losing track of their glorious roots and culture.