Ah the rollicking merriment of India’s usual election tamasha! Where is it this time? Gone. General Elections 2024 are the darkest and bleakest elections in 75 years of Independent India. The fiesta is over. Today, a harsh government-media machine churns joylessly, cracking down on opposition leaders and slathering images of Narendra Modi on every available platform.
The coercive agencies of the Modi government — CBI, ED, IT, NIA — have come galloping out into the poll field like horsemen of the apocalypse. They’re attempting to clear the field for the BJP, even as Narendra Modi takes to the skies, rampaging across India bellowing “Abki baar char sau paar”.
