U.P. Polls: Caste Based Politics, Anti Minority Prejudice Making a Comeback, Prof. Jafferlot
Dec 3, 2021 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=brLY3WKaK-w Prof Jaffrelot also describes the changed form of democracy in India, something he calls an ethnic democracy that equates the majoritarian community with the nation and relegates Muslims and Christians to second-class citizens who are harassed by vigilante groups.
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the strategies Modi deployed to win power. His fiery rhetoric and provocative vocabulary, a personalised style of communication, and uninhibited criticism of rivals, particularly of Congress leaders, as dynastic, elitist, corrupt and ineffective, fetched him electoral success in the 2014 and 2019 general elections. Within a short period of time, the RSS accepted Modi’s style of leader-oriented politics. He created a parallel support system peopled by modern, jeans-clad young women and men, many of whom had come back after a stint in a foreign university. They manned the formidable IT apparatus of the party, kept in touch with swings of public opinion, and proscribed any sort of criticism of Modi and his politics. The prime minister, suggests Jaffrelot, appeals to the electorate because he straddles the worlds of tradition and that of modernity. they mobilise majority opinion against the minorities, immigrants and sections of society that, it is held, do not ‘belong’. Modi, argues Jaffrelot, added a fourth dimension to populism, that of creating a Hindu nation. The minorities have been put in their place. Ethnic democracy has been institutionalised in the country.
Finally, the Modi government dispensed with the welfare state. Scholars term the alternative as the ‘entrepreneurial state’.