Jungle Raj 2.0: Democracy Dismantled from Within

 

Jungle Raj 2.0: Democracy Dismantled from Within

Hindi Version: https://rakeshinsightfulgaze.blogspot.com/2025/11/20.html

The term “Jungle Raj” first gained notoriety in India during the Lalu Prasad Yadav era in Bihar, a period marked by rising crime, collapsing institutions, and disregard for constitutional norms. But what India is facing today under the Modi government is not a chaotic breakdown of law and order. It is something far more dangerous: a meticulously orchestrated assault on democracy, cloaked in the language of law, nationalism, and development. This is Jungle Raj 2.0, legalized tyranny wrapped in the trappings of electoral legitimacy.

Since 2014, India’s democratic institutions have not just weakened, they’ve been hijacked. The constitution is routinely bypassed. Laws are weaponized against dissent. Minorities, particularly Muslims, have been targeted with violence, hate speech, and discriminatory policies, all while the state looks the other way or worse, cheers from the sidelines. The murder of an RJD leader in Bihar by BJP supporters is just the latest in a long line of brutal reminders that political affiliation now determines whether the law protects you or persecutes you.

Under Modi, the rot runs deep. The Election Commission stays silent in the face of blatant electoral manipulation. Voter suppression, fraudulent voting practices, and rigged electoral rolls are met with apathy, not accountability. Tenders are awarded to unqualified allies. Corporate corruption is laundered under tailor-made laws that funnel money into the ruling party’s coffers. The institutions meant to check power have become accomplices to it.

This is not mere mismanagement; it is calculated erosion. Governors and Lieutenant Governors act as agents of the central government, undermining elected state governments that do not align with the BJP. Federalism is collapsing. State laws are blocked, funds are withheld, and law enforcement is hijacked, all to punish opposition-ruled states and bring them to heel. It is political blackmail executed under a democratic facade.

Even the judiciary is not immune. Cases implicating BJP leaders vanish. Judges seen as “uncooperative” are transferred or sidelined. Allegations of judicial corruption swirl, with reports suggesting massive bribes to bury politically sensitive cases. Meanwhile, the public is bombarded with a constant stream of manufactured narratives from a media industry that functions more like a propaganda wing than a free press. The truth is buried under headlines designed to distract, not inform.

We all remember Bilkis Bano a Muslim woman raped during the 2002 Gujarat riots, her three-year-old daughter brutally murdered. The men convicted for that horror were released early and welcomed with garlands by BJP supporters. Only after national outrage and Supreme Court intervention were they sent back to prison. What message does that send about justice in today’s India? When the state honors criminals and silences victims, what remains of the rule of law?

This is Jungle Raj, not as collapse, but as control. A single man makes the rules. His party enforces them. His followers act with impunity. The media defends it. The courts bend to it. The rest of the country is expected to submit to it.

India is not on the edge of a crisis. It is in one. The longer this regime is allowed to operate unchecked, the more irreversible the damage becomes. If people don’t wake up to the reality of this manufactured lawlessness, they won’t just lose their rights they’ll lose their voice, their future, their country.

The warning signs are no longer subtle. This is not democracy. This is a dictatorship with voting booths. This is Jungle Raj 2.0, and it must be confronted before it consumes what remains of India’s republic.

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