Current Indian Politics

[Vaishnavi]

Here are two videos that well summarises the Current Indian politics scenario- 

 

Maharashtra Election Scandal 

BJP even got into a huge embarrassment recently with the Maharashtra state elections. Long story short, it didn't stick to it's promise to Shiv sena (the other party it was in coalition with for Maharashtra's governance), teamed up with another party's major member to try to form a majority, used underhand tactics to have their guy elected as the CM but eventually the whole thing backfired on them. The guy resigned because the member they collaborated with was immediately abandoned by it's own party and BJP couldn't prove it's majority. Ended up making a big fool out of itself. 

That is not to say that congress or the current government in Maharashtra (the coalition b/w Shiv Sena, NCP and Congress) is any better. They all have their hands in dirt.

Edited December 6, 2019 by Vaishnavi
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[electroBeam]

that guy looks like he's gonna shoot lasers out of his eyes. 

[Amit]

India is a spiral dynamics level blue society, having blue-orange politicians. You will see more of it in the coming days. Whoever has the more money, can just buy the elections now a days. 

[Sucuk Ekmek]

India, such a nice country with warm colors and magic carpets. 

[Vaishnavi]

Electoral bonds- BJP’s way of laundering money 

(An extremely regressive scheme)

• BJP’s government introduces electoral bonds as a way to ensure “donations” to political parties in its 2017 finance budget.
• Think of these as promissory notes that can be bought by companies or individuals from banks which can then be “donated” to political parties to fund elections. You’re “showing your support this way” 
• It does so in an unconstitutional fashion by introducing it as a “money bill”.

Alright. But here is when the government has made it real dirty now. 

Up until now, the donors and their identities were available to public. Now, the donor will be completely anonymous AND the amount they’re donating will remain disclosed.  

• Opens up the possibility of big giants like Facebook and google setting up a shell company in India whereby through anonymous banking channels they can easily funds elections (AS MUCH AS THEY WANT. There’s absolutely no cap to it) 
• When persons who donate money are not philanthropists and are commercial profit-making entities, they donate only when there is a more-than-adequate rate of return.
• So, when a corporation donates money to a political party, there is obviously a quid pro quo, whether it is known or not.
• If voters do not know whose money a candidate is using to fund his or her election, they won’t know subsequently whether a decision made by the government is based on the interest of the constituents, in national interest, or in the interest of whoever donated the money.

they're making the system all the more rigid and opaque. it's sickening. 

(image sources: https://www.adrindia.org/) 

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On 06/12/2019 at 5:31 PM, Amit said:

can just buy the elections now a days. 

yup. 

[Harikrishnan]

Bjp is a sd orange/blue party to me with some cool tatics to manipulate people with nationalism and hinduism which is blue. 

Congress party is like sd red for me since one family decides everything. All other parties in india is same except Communist party (marxist) which has some good leaders and doesnt follow family patriarchy. But problem with them was they where sceptics to an untolerable degree.

Policies of Congress and bjp are same. Congress has long left the nehruvian model of socialism.

Who did you vote in this election?

Edited December 8, 2019 by Harikrishnan

[Vaishnavi]

On 08/12/2019 at 4:40 PM, Harikrishnan said:

Who did you vote in this election?

i did not tbh