The Side Effects of Mixing Religion in Politics

 

The 2024 election in India has started to take a turn in a direction that is not pleasing to the ruling party. Blind faith works in both directions, as the Ruling party knows that believers in Sanathan (renamed as Hinduism) will be highly impressed with the efforts of Modi and Yogi to get the Ram Temple built and promising to build the Krishan temple Mathura if the BJP came back to power. As the stars would have it all four Shankaracharya were against the initiation of the partially built temple that was against the religious believers of the Sanathan Dharma and in turn made them see the Ego trip rather than a spiritual journey of the party in power, which most Hindus relate to the Ego of the Ravana. The Ram temple was initiated during a controversial period, which takes away the impact of this accomplishment as a major accomplishment in this election. Even Pulwama is seen as a failure of this government and giving negative mileage to the BJP Patry. Furthermore, the electoral bond has become the biggest corruption issue against the BJP as well. So, when the media reports a significant drop in voter interest in the first 2 phases, this explains why there has been a significant drop in voting percentage in the first two phases because knowing that some voters who prefer BJP over other parties are no longer thrilled to vote for this leadership of the BJP that according to them has given a bad name to the party. Reports of infighting between the BJP and RSS as well as some upper cast groups in the Hindi belt show the frustration among party leaders having no major accomplishments impacting the economic conditions of the voters who are not able to answer to the voters on these issues. Some party leaders are also frustrated seeing how much of the power has been centralized under Amit Shah, who seems to call all the shots in making decisions. Now the question is which political party it helps to have voted in 7 phases over 7 weeks, the answer is the one with less cash and resources as it gives them more time to compete.

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