Should BJP Face Defeat in Lok Sabha Polls, Can We Expect Peaceful Transfer of Power? https://thewire.in/politics/should-bjp-face-defeat-in-lok-sabha-polls-can-we-expect-peaceful-transfer-of-power
The poll authority was neatly rigged. The law was changed just months before the election process was to begin to ensure that those conducting the polls behave, stay within limits, and not offer even a hint that they were an independent constitutional authority, as they used to be.
The bank accounts of the main national opposition, the Congress, were frozen so that it may be prevented from doing any work at all, leave alone election work. Two opposition chief ministers were thrown into jail without trial, on accusations that raise questions about the government’s motives.
India’s version of the dreaded secret police of some countries – created here by the regime through the simple expedient of converting legitimate investigative authorities into praetorian guards of a corrupt autocracy through an inter-locking process that has subverted established institutions of governance of every kind, and made them bow to the wishes of a coterie who have the gumption to declare that they will be in power for 50 years. The likely shape and direction of such a regime, in which absolute power is made a plaything in the service of the richer classes, more specifically big business, will be that of a single party-single leader dictatorship.
..can someone with the political makeup, pugilist outlook, and self-aggrandising tendencies of Modi, who has accumulated vast resources, some of it through means called “unconstitutional” by the Supreme Court, be tempted to come in the way of the peaceful transfer of power, if the poll outcome proves an undue setback?