A Lone Wolf That Survived

Let me clarify one thing that I'm not a follower of Mr. Narendra Modi because I'm from Andhra Pradesh where BJP has no effect and zero accountability.

Every time, Indian Lok Sabha elections are credited as the biggest democratic electoral in the world because of the vastness of our country, a large number of seats and so on. Amidst demonetization effects, debates on Pulwama attacks, and surgical strike, 2019 elections saw some spectacular miracles happening in the country.

UPA( United Progressive Alliance ) is facing it's worst chapters of their history. Started in 2014 when NDA( National Democratic Alliance) triumphed to an enormous marginal victory. NDA kept rising and rising within these years consistently and yet again rises to power in 2019 by increasing the margin yet again and winning in historical 353 out of 542Lok Sabha seats.

Let me show you the growth of BJP, NDA alliance over the past 2 decades.

This is the situation in 2004.

Source: Election Commission Of India, IndiaToday

This is the situation in 2009.

Source: Election Commission Of India, IndiaToday

2014

2019

Though the Modi factor was fuel to the fire of BJP's unremarkable growth from 2009 to 2014, it's not just Modi wave solely behind the victory of the NDA government in 2019.

Among the changing factors that helped BJP to excel are the flaws and blunders committed by the opposition parties

If a number of people who hate, abuse each other stand together to defeat someone, it just reflects the feeling that the group doesn't have any basic morality. It's just like how many villains in the movie get together to plummet the Hero down. It promises people's favor, sympathy towards the Hero standing and fighting alone.

Just because they had a common enemy, rivals from decades stood and laughed together, tried to look like they are all the same. This is exactly what went wrong. When you have been accusing your rival of doing evil things and you suddenly stand beside him, your own followers start doubting you.

The few of many miracles in this election are

(1) Rahul Gandhi losing Amethi constituency, which has been their unreserved seat since 2 decades to Smriti Irani by humiliating 50k votes margin. The interesting thing is that in 2014, he defeated Smriti Irani by more than 1 Lakh margin of votes.

(2)Tamil-Nadu based, Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam (DMK) which had 0 Lok Sabha seats in 2014 was awarded 23 seats in 2019 making it the third biggest party in the country.

Despite a few numbers of Northern states and almost all the Southern states, BJP has shown it’s power and an unquestionable majority in 2019 polls. The victory of BJP resulted in a steep increase in foreign national’s investments in India.

Let’s hope that there would be no more “Aaj Raat Se …. Band” shocks and the country progresses well in the BJP’s reign.