Is there any other option? This year provided further indication that Narendra Modi’s success is solely due to the fact that he has no opposition. This has been the year marked by the most errors and fiascoes in his seven years as Prime Minister. Modi’s personal blunders in sectors ranging from healthcare to national security are far too numerous to recount in this space. The dreadful position that India found herself in during the second Covid wave, when public healthcare essentially collapsed, and we realised that the Prime Minister had failed to procure enough vaccines to save us from this deadly virus, are the two that stand out in my opinion.
The second was Modi’s failure to recognise in time that if farmers were willing to demonstrate for a year against legislation that they feared would destroy them, the Prime Minister should have addressed their concerns sooner rather than later. Modi’s inability to consult the people he was attempting to help was not just a blunder, but also a negative reflection on his leadership.
It is extraordinary that he has weathered the storms of this year and emerged, if surveys are to be believed, as the man whom India’s voters trust more than any other political leader. The difficulty, as West Bengal’s Chief Minister so eloquently stated last week, is that the Opposition parties have failed to capitalise on Modi’s numerous serious errors.
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She stated that whomever headed the Opposition parties needed to have the bravery to fight, and that the Congress party had demonstrated that it not only didn’t have any fight left in it, but also had a leader who was always loafing off to some foreign nation when he was needed here.
Brutal. But, sometimes, it’s necessary to tell the truth bluntly, and the reality is that if the Opposition remains stationary despite Modi’s litany of missteps and failures this year, we should start questioning whether we have an Opposition at all. Not whether it is capable of banding together to beat the BJP in upcoming state elections, but whether there is any opposition at all.
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Opposition parties frequently accuse the Modi government of making Parliament dysfunctional, but who is it that spends more time sitting under Gandhiji’s statue than inside the so-called “temple of democracy”? The final session of Parliament was squandered because the opposition parties insisted that nothing else would be debated until the Pegasus spyware issue was resolved. This session appears to be doomed because the Rajya Sabha’s 12 suspended members refuse to apologise for their egregious behaviour and instead opt to spend their time under Gandhiji’s monument. If there is a strategy behind this never-ending disruption of Parliament, it is a poor one. And one that appears to have been designed by politicians trapped in a time warp.
This type of protest may have had some purpose in the days before social media and quick news. It no longer does, and it now appears to be as ridiculous as assembling outside Parliament’s gates and trotting over to Rashtrapati Bhavan to protest to the President. Is it any surprise that Modi is still regarded as India’s sole leader? Is it any surprise that, despite his numerous gaffes this year, he has remained relatively unscathed? If you saw Mamata Banerjee’s press conference in Mumbai last week, you’ll note that those who flocked to her side were formerly convinced that the Congress party was the only thing standing between India and becoming a Hindu version of the Islamic republic next door. Horrible notion, but one that we must begin to consider, though somberly.
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The truth is that there can be no viable national political alternative without the Congress party. Not only does it appear incapable of meeting the challenge, but it also appears to be unaware of how much politics has changed. It appears to be wallowing in its former glories rather than renewing itself, as if it has nothing else to offer. The sad reality is that Sonia Gandhi and her children appear to have learned nothing about why our oldest political party has suffered humiliating setbacks in two general elections.
Unless they start questioning why all of the Congress party’s veterans have either departed or seem unhappier by the day, regional actors like Mamata Banerjee will do everything they can to fill the void that is growing in the place where the national Opposition should be. One of the claims Banerjee made in her diatribe against the Congress party last week was that the Congress had ‘become Narendra Modi’s TRP. She is not mistaken. When things go wrong for Modi, his spokespeople always cite Rahul Gandhi to remind Indian voters that he is their only option, and that he is really no option at all. If this were not the case, there is no way Modi would have survived the worst year of his entire political career.
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