Elections Modi 3.0

[g.sarkar]

Chetakji,
Do not underestimate Mumtaz Bano. Remember the WB Police had once dragged her out of CM Jyoti Basu's office by her hair.
Gautam

[bala]

This is crap that Mumtaz did for W. Bengal. TMC was a worse form of the commys of W. Bengal. In Ashoknagar there is oil and gas and this stupid woman blocked extraction of vital resources. W. Bengal also has coal resources.

240 Million Barrels of Oil Hidden In Bengal, Why Mamta Banerjee Stopped it? Aadi Pathikrit Show

watch in leisure:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ldbUCAsKhE8

[uddu]

https://x.com/MeghUpdates/status/2060783334608044180
@MeghUpdates
A ₹30,000 bribe turned into Odisha’s biggest vigilance cash recovery.

Deputy Director of Mines Debabrata Mohanty was caught in a bribery trap, leading investigators to uncover over ₹4 crore in unaccounted cash and gold during raids.

What started as a small corruption probe exposed alleged disproportionate assets on a massive scale.

[drnayar]

This is crap that Mumtaz did for W. Bengal. TMC was a worse form of the commys of W. Bengal. In Ashoknagar there is oil and gas and this stupid woman blocked extraction of vital resources. W. Bengal also has coal resources.

240 Million Barrels of Oil Hidden In Bengal, Why Mamta Banerjee Stopped it? Aadi Pathikrit Show

watch in leisure:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ldbUCAsKhE8

Her power comes from keeping people ignorant and poor, throw strong arm tactics and pure thuggery into the mix with largesse during election time, you have a heady mix to keep in power. Sort of how old western towns were run. Still works. , esp if populace is "kept in line" .. cpm tactics in Kerala is another example

[uddu]

The old Soviet Socialist Model of Roti Kapda aur Makan being dangled in front of the population by the Congress. Will 6 cylinder become 9? 9 cylinder becomes 12 was the debate of 2014 elections and the most promising poll promise of that period. The same idealogy being adopted by their allies to be regional satraps. Development politics unleashed by PM Modi is destroying this type of politics.
Some old videos for going back to those good old days of living under dynasts and whose mercy the people lived.
Govt mulls tweaking LPG cylinder cap from 6 to 9

Rahul effect: Cabinet raises quota of subsidised gas cylinders to 12 from 9

Rahul Gandhi on increasing LPG cylinder to 12, AICC Meeting, Jan 17, 2014

[chetak]

and the never ending saga continues....................

[KL Dubey]

If voter fraud & non-SIR was the reason BJP lost WB in 2021 (& hence the country endured 5 more years of demographic assault), shame on Modi & Shah. By 2021, they were already in power for 7 years and would have known the nature of the green problem at an intimate level of detail

One has to understand the long-term nature of the issues. I already made a post on AS, WB, and KL combined. In all these three states, the threat has been from both green men and red men. Both have caused major issues.

AS was the first to break through. The reds faded away by 1990s, then the greens had a field day under INC sarkars, and 12 years ago a massive hindu consolidation by Himanta et al swept the greens out of power and today they are a rather tame lot.

WB followed a similar path. The reds faded in the early 2000s, then the greens ruled the roost for 15 years, and starting in 2020s the massive hindu consolidation and resolute Dharmic action by Shah and Adhikari is now replicating the AS model.

In KL, now the reds are fading. And indeed, like clockwork, the greens are now in power (they had pockets in north KL already), but Hindu + X-men consolidation will pick up slowly. Important thing in KL is that the majority of X-men (70%) are syrian orthodox, i.e. do not pursue evangelism and are mostly opposed to the greens.

In other words, these majority X-men in KL are not a threat now and instead will need to consolidate with the Hindus into a roughly 60% bloc, which is much higher than what is available in AS and comparable in strength to WB.

As for the X-men threat, they are active on the east coast, i.e. TN and AP. These areas never had much greens or reds except in some pockets. Here one has to deal with the mental health issue/phenomenon of "crypto-X-men", i.e. those who are Hindu on the books but become afflicted by abrahamic cretinism. This is a more insidious problem and one cannot use the same strategy as for the green men. Some posters here try to brush away this insidious and dangerous problem under the carpet by claiming they are "not like the aggressive X-men".

[KL Dubey]

Her power comes from keeping people ignorant and poor, throw strong arm tactics and pure thuggery into the mix with largesse during election time, you have a heady mix to keep in power. Sort of how old western towns were run. Still works. , esp if populace is "kept in line" .. cpm tactics in Kerala is another example

This is very much the case in rural USA as well. The political system gives politicians (not the aam aadmi) from the rural areas an outsize "influence". The rural population in USA is less than 20%, and in these areas the populace is kept ignorant and poor as well as under strong religious influences. I don't know about the EU but I am assuming it would be similar - outsize political influence but poverty on the ground.

[chetak]

pray tell, tharoor,.......in your misplaced secularism fetish...........



where is the Hindu candidate elected from a muslim constituency , or

where is the Hindu candidate elected from xtian constituency

or is that asking for too much from an old friend of soreass, as you once described yourself............

[chetak]

[ricky_v]

^completely disagree with the author and his line of reasoning. The bjp has spent the better part of 10 years, wasted more like, on the sarva garam vada pav approach and they were repaid for their efforts in the 2024 ls at the drop of a hat while those who were the supporters from way back had to endure whatever the centre was doing and to gaslight themsleves and others of the benefits of such approach.

Now that the bjp has understood and approached the jiska saath uska vikaas approach, comes this new chooran of inclusivity and flexibility and evolution to newer dimensions. How about NO? how about the bjp maintains its course? The others if they are undecided can keep voting for poorer returns on infra, security, demographic changes, and general nose-tweaking of the majority. That is their choice, the opposition has underlined and declared in every different way possible that such will be the wages of their appreciation. If they still want it, they are welcome to it, the bjp will work with social engineering to try and wrest power while others play in lala land * of higher thought, philosophy, the general cause of the universe, the course of history and the personal anguish at battling demons for the acceptance of hindutva.

If the bjp becomes this spineless party for everyone as the author squeakily suggests, then there will be willing manpower and monies found for a new party to take the space for core indic issues; the reverse is not true, the undecided and fence-sitters are so because they do not have the will to identify or fight for their community, if they did, they would not have been fence-sitters in the first place. No workers in this case would be forthcoming, nor would the monies be sustained as the leadership will have its concentration divided into other more pressing issues other than hardcore politics.

Rejection of such sophist lines of thought or "soft" hindutva should be default setting at this stage, we have had these experiments, and they indeed have been most illuminating.

[bala]

where is the Hindu candidate elected from a muslim constituency , or where is the Hindu candidate elected from xtian constituency

Keralam is becoming M and C sympathetic. The ordinary H person seems to question their own. The amount of beef and pig consumption in Keralam is huge and ever growing everywhere. There is no hope of H ever recovering from their stupid hazy thinking in Keralam. The entire blame in Keralam rests with the H crowd and their wishy washy thinking. Keralam has produced Ayurveda and Adi Shankara, not to forget the school of math which Britshit Newton usurped. Shampoo Tharoor is trying to be oh so neutral and politically correct but is biased against his own kind, it is disgusting to say the least.

Just look at Japan, they are revolting on a growing trend of Mosque building in Japan. Mainly Pukes in Japan are at the forefront of mosque building, some illegally done. Buddhist Japan won't tolerate this incursion into their sacred land and there is surge of defiance in Japan.

[williams]

...
If the bjp becomes this spineless party for everyone
...

I agree the article is a bit out of track. But Is there a definition of spineless everyone can agree? The 36-37% of vote share BJP has today will be consolidated through whatever means possible. That is politics. Right now BJP's success is its enemy. There is no real opposition asking the real questions that actually matter. So at some point it is a healthy development if real opposition arise that can keep BJP accountable. Today RSS is doing that to some extent. But there are cracks forming.

BTW Hindutva by definition is "soft". It is a cultural framework that everyone can operate within and at some point outside Bharat. It is impossible for BJP alone to have ownership of it. I think Annamalai is sowing a seed for such a possibility in TN. IMHO we should welcome such development as long as the Congi ecosystem dies.

[chetak]

There is a theory going around that to defeat entrenched and ideology driven parties, it needs a party with no ideology or principles.

Take the examples of the aam aadmi party, though they lied, cheated, and scammed their way into power, they succeeded mainly because they had no ideology, no scruples or principles that they were bound by, meaning that they adapted rapidly and continuously to changing circumstances and new situations and did it without a conscience that troubled them

The DMK and the AIDMK were constrained by their dravidian derived drivers that forced them into specific behavioural patterns, dictated by the entrenched and separatist dravidian ideology, without anything much to differentiate between the two of them, and both ran hugely efficient and well organised corruption systems

they were both selling the same snake oil, which is why they usually alternated every election cycle, like what happens in kerala

most unexpectedly, they were taken down by joseph vijay who seems to be, so far, pushing no ideology or religion in particular. He doesn’t seem to care who comes into his cabinet, or who he allies with. Let's wait and watch where this guy is headed. Thus far he has not displayed too much interest in any constraining principles that may railroad him into the usual TN brand of appeasement governance, but he has paid public homage to the LTTE, which is very unusual by itself, especially when coming from the CM's mouth.

His shadowy backers are playing the long game but they will outed soon enough. He is still uncertain of the "quality and reliability" of support that he has from his "allies". Firefighting seems to be taking up most of his time and effort.

The pattern was discernable in bengal too, where the congis, post independence, led a violent and corrupt govt, they were overthrown by the commies who behaved in the same way but ruled with more institutionalised violence but their corruption was by and large contained at the lower and mid level of cadres. Most of their CMs were polished, cultured, and refined in the bhadralok approved bengali tradition and along came the crude, rude, street fighter chaap mumtaz bano road roller which literally genocided the commies using their own methods of brutality, but bano's corruption pattern was very different in that it was run and controlled from the very top

only about 2-3% of bano's corruption has come to light so far, much like the proverbial tip of the iceberg. The powers that be will use some of those horror stories to obliterate bano politically and literally pulverise the TMC support structures to eliminate any possibilities of her rising again

The BJP mined the electorate battlegrounds in bengal some years ahead, in preparation for the 2026 elections, and the backlash of the vengeful voters who had been trampled upon, killed, raped and butchered by the out of control TMC cadres, in what can very loosely be called anti incumbency, because it had gone way beyond this mundane descriptor. The countering of the brutal violence of the bano led mantra for victory, the rigging of the EVMs, the intimidation of the election staff, and the containment of the goonda elements was all done legally


even the congis never mentioned rigging of the EVMs because they were stunned and left aghast at the levels to which bano had taken the tampering to, and refined it into a black art to ensure victory margins

[V_Raman]

TVK celebrates all religions - they took oath in the name of god - first after a long time in TN. His ministers openly celebrate/pray in institutions of their faith - Church/Mosque/Temple - this is fresh air for TN. By default - Hindu things will dominate - due to sheer numbers.

TVK is more right than BJP religiously IMO. People will give them 2 years and then judge. Paarkalaam...

[bala]

The phenomena in TN is that the general populace is struck with cine characters. MGR was swept into power since he used to sympathize with ordinary folks/laborers etc in his movie scenes, he himself came from such background during his upbringing in Sri Lanka. Next came Jayalalithaa who was also in the cine field and girlfriend of MGR. People in TN are guillable that such people can rule. BTW Karuna of DMK was also in the cine field writing plays/scripts for movies. He turned out to be a sharp ruler and guided the party to where it is today.

I would say that the Babus and officialdom of TN have slightly more capable people who can run the ship better than most other states. The DMK took advantage and painted themselves as pro industry with all the attendant fanfare of opening this and that new venture in TN. However, one of the things they ruined is the caliber of education in the state which is not bubbling up the best and brightest. DMK's area of widespread corruption led to Uday S controlling film distribution throughout TN and building works was controlled by Stalin's son-in-law.

[V_Raman]

You will be surprised at how broadly exposed cine characters are - rather than the political party fiefdoms in other states. They at least talk about eradicating corruption in movies - while party cadres dont even know what that is!!!!

I dont know about other states - but TN actors do lot of charity/community work - some with political ambitions and scores of others without any such ambition.

For the first time in a very long time - a party has won without bribing voters - I celebrate it - however fleeting that may turn out to be !!

[Vayutuvan]

One thing I have to give to the Tamiz folks. They lead other southern states in all development indices. Development in TN is evenly distributed, whereas in TS, Hyderabad is far more developed than any other area/city. At least AP has many developed towns - Vizag ofc, Rajahmundry, Kakinada, Vijayawada, Nellore, Gunturu, and Tirupati come to mind. In TS only Warangal comes to mind. In KTK, it is mostly B'lur and Mysore to some extent. Kerala 100% literacy, and that is it.

[chetak]

why were / are the majority of leaders wielding power in TN predominantly non tamils

Didn't / Don't they have capable leaders who have organically risen from within the tamil (non transplants) community itself

This trend actually started with venkatappa ramasamy, so called periyar.......

Isn't this incongruous for a culture where their intolerant politics are dominated by a society that is so obsessed with identity , exclusivity of language and race, a leadership that seems to have so readily adapted to a foreign religion, the roots of which are glaringly non Indian

the newest entrant to the leadership matrix is being openly backed by a powerful faction of the BIF that had in the recent past, very violently tried to separate from India and establish a separate nation called eelam that encompassed a largish chunk of southern India and lanka

[chetak]

One thing I have to give to the Tamiz folks. They lead other southern states in all development indices. Development in TN is evenly distributed, whereas in TS, Hyderabad is far more developed than any other area/city. At least AP has many developed towns - Vizag ofc, Rajahmundry, Kakinada, Vijayawada, Nellore, Gunturu, and Tirupati come to mind. In TS only Warangal comes to mind. In KTK, it is mostly B'lur and Mysore to some extent. Kerala 100% literacy, and that is it.

Vayutuvan ji,

one is intrigued by this commonly bandied about phrase "100% literacy".

where is the corresponding infrastructure to support this hypothesis

why are a great many kids from ker studying outside the state

Perhaps a person of your erudition could better explain this "100% literacy" meme that is so commonly tossed around. What exactly does it mean and at what stage of the educational achievement does this "100% literacy" parameter kick in. What is the defining cut off for any individual to be considered eligible to be a part of this "100% literacy" ecosystem

TN certainly has a larger number of "islands of prosperity" but rural TN is not so very different from rural KAR, AP TS or whatever

One thing that is not so commonly discussed is the fact that the economy of ker is very different from the economies of almost every other state in India

Perhaps, the easy availability of power has been a major factor. That has had a multiplier effect on their industrial and social development and the attendant trickle down effect of FDI has certainly improved their development and human related indices. The nuclear power generation complex is concentrated in TN but similar GoI investments in the neighbouring states is lacking

No one ever mentions the role played by the very hardworking and the very considerable percentage of migrant labour and transient population that is so harshly exploited by various "employers" in TN.

[sanjayc]

Last few days I was checking Instagram. I felt that it has become a playground of intelligence agencies (especially CIA and ISI) to pump certain messages into Indian audience to shape their thinking in a certain direction. Broadly I found being bombarded with reels like:

1. Reels showing huge public support for cockroach party in India, with youth marching in millions to support its cause (most likely promoted by CIA / AAP)
2. Bheem army dudes abusing Brahmins and Hindus (most like promoted by church / CIA)
3. Reels of Hindu women saying how much they crave Muslim men and how they want to marry Muslims (reels orchestrated by ISI and Arab sheikhs)
4. Reels of Hindu women (even middle aged women) flaunting their breasts to gain followers -- these are organic reels where Hindu women will do anything to become Insta celebrities

Having mass social media platforms whose ownership is in American hands has its own risks. Your population (especially idealist youth and gullible girls) will be bombarded with orchestrated messages to conduct social engineering.

[williams]

None of these new parties AAP, TVK etc has any national appeal. From the national perspective BJP' has peaked well. They need to now plan for a post Namo scenario and keep the younger leaders together. As long as BJP can increase the vote share by another 3 percent and not lose existing support they will be a nationally dominant party. I think we should not worry about things like CJP. Those useful idiots will keep coming IMO. As long as foreign NGO funding flow is monitored with diligence, BIF problem is going to go away soon IMO.

[Prem Kumar]

Post-Namo is key

Yogi seems logical. He has nationwide appeal. Hope Namo doesn't pull a Gandhi and veto him because he isn't "Westernized" enough in his monk robes. I hope Yogi also feels like he belongs in the highest office

BJP, without charismatic leaders, doesn't have the same appeal that it has now under Modi

The biggest unfinished job of Modi/Shah is dismantling the C-system. Without that, BJP's national position is not secure. Need to eradicate them, Chanakya-style

Rahul is still young, by political standards. We need to win everytime, the enemy has to win only once.

[Vayutuvan]

one is intrigued by this commonly bandied about phrase "100% literacy".

@chetak gaaru, I was being sarcastic. I should have put that in between quotes.

Other points are well taken. I have visited only two cities in TN - Chennai (when it was Madras) twice, Madurai (on my honeymoon), and one rural area - Kalpakkam, but only the DAE township.

[bala]

Ahmedabad Police conduct massive crackdown against ‘illegal’ Bangladeshis, 290 detained
ANI News Jun 3, 2026

Ahmedabad Police and Crime Branch conducted a late-night search operation targeting suspected illegal Bangladeshi infiltrators in Ahmedabad. The searches were conducted at various locations including Chandola, Gulabnagar, and Khodiyarnagar. More than 290 individuals were taken into custody, with 131 apprehended from several locations and around 160 others undergoing interrogation.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PX0UYoOivPU


// hope the other states follow. Maharashtra in Mumbai, Delhi area, UP, Bihar, W. Bengal besides kolkatta, Assam, Karnataka in bluru, Telengana, Kerala, TN have droves of them.

[KL Dubey]

one is intrigued by this commonly bandied about phrase "100% literacy".

where is the corresponding infrastructure to support this hypothesis

why are a great many kids from ker studying outside the state

Things like the above can be easily clarified by a 1-min google search. It's not worth a BRF discussion. This thread is being misused for all kinds of irrelevant things outside of election processes/outcomes/implications. You got baited.

[Vayutuvan]

This thread is being misused for all kinds of irrelevant things outside of election processes/outcomes/implications. You got baited.

Huh? Let @chetak ji decide if they got baited. You are not being baited (even if I intended to bait). Logic seems to be a weak point for many here on BRF. They bully others into submission (or think that they can).

[Vayutuvan]

(Probably should go into math thread, but I will leave it here to show the illogic of @KL Dubey ji)

While the other sciences search for the rules that God has chosen for this Universe, we mathematicians search for the rules that even God has to obey. - Serre (John Pierre Serre, Fields Medalist)

(Lest others think I am equating myself to Serre, please disabuse yourselves of that notion)

[Manish_Sharma]

https://x.com/md_deepesh/status/2062504 ... 21333?s=20

This post will disturb you.
That is precisely why you should read it.
The source is credible.
The implications are uncomfortable.

And the clock is already ticking.

Something is happening inside India.
Most people cannot see it.
Most are not supposed to.

Because the operation works best when the target thinks nothing is happening.

There are players involved.
Not governments officially.
Not intelligence agencies visibly.
Not names you will see on television.

But they have a target.
A very specific target.

India's 2029 election.

They do not want a decisive mandate.
They do not want a strong majority.
They want fragmentation.

Negotiation.
Dependence.
Pressure points.

They tested the model in 2024.
Partially successful.

Now they are back.
Better funded.
Better organized.
More aggressive.

As per estimates,
$100 Million are already in play.

Because there are 10 things India keeps refusing.
And somebody wants those refusals reversed.

Here is the list.

Stop Rupee-Ruble and Rupee-Dirham trade.
Return to the Dollar system.

Turn India into a frontline state against China.

Crush India's generic medicine industry.
Open the market to Big giants.

Remove MSP.
Open Indian farms and dairy to foreign corporations.

Keep buying foreign weapons.
Slowly bury Atmanirbhar Bharat in defence.

Accept carbon targets.
Reduce coal before alternatives exist.

Allow unrestricted foreign-funded NGO operations.

Accept Western AI rules.
Surrender India's digital future.

Stop pushing for a permanent UNSC seat.

Help dismantle BRICS as an alternative power structure.

A strong government can say no.

A coalition dependent on 10 to 15 partners struggles to.

That is where the story begins.

Now watch the playbook.

The operation has been active since Dec 2024.
The economy will be painted as collapsing.
The Rupee will be portrayed as dying.
Caste census will become a political weapon.
Every caste group will be told it received less.
Narratives will flood timelines. Relentlessly.
Local failures will be pinned on the Centre.
Delimitation will be framed as the silencing of South.
Religious fault lines will be pushed harder.
SIR will be projected as targeting a community.
Meme armies will go to work at industrial scale.
Street protests will emerge. Looking organic.
Social media amplification will record level.
BJP vs RSS will become a recurring headline.
Indian Defence has internal rift.
International Media will fire shots.

Then comes 2029.
The harvest.

A fractured mandate.
One negotiating table.
Many pressure points.

And suddenly.
The ten demand return.
Waiting for signatures.

Between now and then,
your mind becomes the battlefield.

Every headline.
Every meme.
Every outrage.
Every trend.

Every manufactured crisis.
Designed.
Sequenced.
Funded.

This is not about your favourite party.
That is the distraction.

This is about whether India retains the ability to say no.

They know that.

The question is far simpler.

Do you?

[williams]

Post-Namo is key

Yogi seems logical. He has nationwide appeal. Hope Namo doesn't pull a Gandhi and veto him because he isn't "Westernized" enough in his monk robes. I hope Yogi also feels like he belongs in the highest office

BJP, without charismatic leaders, doesn't have the same appeal that it has now under Modi

The biggest unfinished job of Modi/Shah is dismantling the C-system. Without that, BJP's national position is not secure. Need to eradicate them, Chanakya-style

Rahul is still young, by political standards. We need to win everytime, the enemy has to win only once.

They will have to find the next strong leader for UP and pull Yogi to the center soon in that case. But Amit Ji is also excellent choice if that does not happen.

[chetak]

Chetakji,
Do not underestimate Mumtaz Bano. Remember the WB Police had once dragged her out of CM Jyoti Basu's office by her hair. Gautam

Gautam saar,

Even the BJP is not underestimating her.

She is being politically and financially strangled by her own erstwhile supporters who are terrified of suvendhu adhikari because of the TMC informer network working with the CM that is leaking secrets and locations of stashed cash, arms and the identities of the TMC jihadi gangs, govt employees, et al, making fake Indian IDs and other fake legal proofs of residence, citizenship, ration cards, and all other papers, in exchange for their own safety and not being taken into police custody for some "friendly" talks, without the chai biskoot ceremonies

she is khujliwal 2.0 pro max and is everything that khujliwal himself ever dreamed of becoming

All the attacks on the nephew have been stage managed by her and the nephew but have been exposed by their own cadres and many TMC guys have been arrested for these attacks

She has lost control of her own party, the LOP position has been taken away by her own deserting MLAs and she has been sidelined for now. A large majority of TMC MLAs and MPs are not attending her meetings

but she has the covert support from the pakis, beedis, the padres, the culinary institute and many jihadis in and out of bengal

She has no options left but to head for the SC, and then we will know who is supporting her, by virtue of who her "appointed" lawyers are

[Supratik]

Saddened by the departure of Annamalai. He was PM material.

MB should hand over the WB unit to the next generation and move to national politics. She has become highly unpopular in Bengal.

NP in Odisha should also hand over the party to the next generation and move to national politics.

[ricky_v]

BTW Hindutva by definition is "soft". It is a cultural framework that everyone can operate within and at some point outside Bharat. It is impossible for BJP alone to have ownership of it. I think Annamalai is sowing a seed for such a possibility in TN. IMHO we should welcome such development as long as the Congi ecosystem dies.

But the congi ecosystem will not die, and that is not being facetious. There is a large section of mohemmedans who have gravitated to its tent, and the list of macaulayputras and those bearing the fire of the imagined old India is unending and have become only more entrenched in their viewpoint.

Point that the hindutva is not a trademark for the BJP alone, my concern would be the division of votes in cases of competing ecosystems start popping up. Annamalai has started his own journey, and all the best to him, there are only 2 ways this ends, he finds out what bsy found out that running a party requires a lot of money and manpower. By some estimates for a mla election, candidates from regular parties spend at the least 25 lacs per seat, for a ls election, it would depend how many assembly seats come inside that parliamentary seat increasing the cost by multiples. Or he becomes a localised successful version such as pawan kalyan and later supports the wider nda.

Imo, India needs a concentrated push for development for the next couple of decades, and it be better if double and triple engine sarkaars are operating in tandem for grater alignments and speed of decision making. The time for loose confederated parties who under the umbrella of hindutva govern india is far very far into the future, but one that I feel a certainty of occuring. The discipline will not hold for long once nm exits the stage, probably 2-3 more chiefs after him, but the time should be spent wisely in developing assiduously and meticulously in all directions till then.

[Prem Kumar]

They will have to find the next strong leader for UP and pull Yogi to the center soon in that case. But Amit Ji is also excellent choice if that does not happen.

Yes, backfilling Yogi in UP will be a challenge

IMHO, Amit Shah is not PM material. He is a backroom operator and the best HM India has ever had. He commands fear. But he is not a charismatic, mass leader