The manner in which the BJP has established its presence demonstrates how much popular faith it has won in the past 3 years of its tenure at the centre. An ordinary tea boy, once selling tea on platforms has become the dynamic and successful PM of this country. It shows there is no short cut to achieve success, “diamond shines more when it is rubbed”.
His oratory skills and high-tech campaign have made him a solid favorite. Today Modi remains the most polarizing figure in Indian politics. The last three Modi years have blazed with romanticizing the Army and its soldiers, flexing the military muscle of “strong” government and State, pulverizing anyone who dares question it, on television screens, social media or in public discourse.
Three years of Modi government will be mostly remembered for the demonetisation shock, but it also witnessed an increase in digitisation of payments, continued rollout of Jan Dhan, the passing of many critical laws, including on GST. It is perhaps in this respect that the BJP’s greater success during the past three years might be worth noting.
Modi government has scored high ratings including foreign policy issues such as its handling of Pakistan and India’s global influence under the Modi government. In Uttar Pradesh, the BJP has emerged the largest party with a clear winner, after 20 years. On ‘Congress-mukt Bharat’ BJP is making a deeper dent. Besides defeating the Congress in the arena of competitive politics, it implied that a different public discourse and different national political identity would emerge as dominant.
Modi has offered the image of clean backward class person from modest background to question the mighty dynasty and has offered the organizational support to project it proper. His image is as one of the greatest PM in the world who made the politics so interesting and who single-handedly dismantled Congress all other pseudo secular parties. Modi Government has received unprecedented support from all sections of society.
In addition, Modi govt has not only held on to its social base but managed to attract a large number of voters from other communities. There was an unparalleled consolidation of upper castes and middle classes behind the BJP.
