The drama over voting for the Rajya Sabha seat in the Himachal Pradesh Assembly has revealed, yet again, the Narendra Modi government’s method of playing politics: Brazen use of the state apparatus to seize power and subvert the rules of democracy from within.
Congress MLAs who voted in favour of the BJP were allegedly placed in the protection of the CRPF, India’s central police.
Question: What role can the CRPF possibly have in Rajya Sabha elections?
Answer: In Modi-style politics, the police, Enforcement Directorate, governors, returning officers, in short almost all institutions of state, are pressed into service to make life impossible for political opponents.
