A Deshmukh wrote:pankajs wrote:Anyone remember one of the first reforms pushed by Modi after assuming power in 2014 flush with the an electoral victory unrivaled in the previous 30 years? In principle a yinduvadi PM with such a massive victory should have been able to push it through.
Judicial Appointments. But struck down by SC.
Because I did not want to google I wrote "
one of the first reforms" to account for my poor recollection.
Judicial Appointments may be but I was essentially recollecting the land reform legislation that had to be abandoned my Modi-1. The reason was that the rest of the opposition came together to corner the government and incite the farmers against Modi/BJP.
After pushing it for a while, Modi had to take it back and suffer a defeat in his agenda. This was an issue that wasn't even that divisive.
Lets assume Modi was determined not to back down on the land reform issue. The opposition had gotten the farmers riled up and succeed in painting Modi as anti-farmer. Anyway the issue was stuck in the RS but would have continued to be a potent issue rather gather more energy into the 2019 GE season. Modi would have been voted out and the ragtag coalition that came in would have {repealed/denotified/retracted/whatever it the correct term} it. Not only would it have achieved nothing in the land reforms but also nullified ALL the rest of BJP's DOABLE agenda.
End result, FULL loss for NO gain AND additional loss on the rest of the agenda. Modi is smarter than that, read the writing on the wall and backtracked. Many lessons for our uber-yinduvadi friends.
Side note RJB is getting done via SC when the GOI could have acted on its own. Why did Modi choose to let the opportunity pass to write himself into history? Must be very painful for an attention-monger like him to hand over the limelight to someone else. Why then? There too are lessons to be learnt by our uber-yinduvadi friends.
Also note, while Triple talak was re-introduced, we still haven't heard anything about the re-introduction of the land reform legislation yet! Lesson here too.
One objective I will state clearly here is to ensure longevity of BJP rule to avoid rollbacks till the law/decision/thinking becomes part of the background like how secularism has become part of the basic structure of the constitution without being part of the original. Like I had stated a while back the objective is to "occupy the crease" to "prevent mischief". Nothing can be more dangerous at this stage than push an issue that splits the Yindu vote and hand over the country to pure poison of "Sonia's Congress". Anyone remember the fate of POTA? Lesson in that too. For the remaining lesson I will leave it to people to think and deduce for themselves.
