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Illustrator: Takhe Tamo Reela
Issue 10, 2019
Established: 1995
ALL IN FAVOUR
Saturday, May 18th, 2019
-Ngukivi Chishi, XII Come the 19th of May 2019, the last vote of the great Congress’s ‘do or die’ move to garner a vote bank in the Indian General Elections would have been cast and in all-important Uttar Pradesh elections. A more pressing the following few days’, President Kovind will invite factor, however, is the astonishingly unchecked growth the new leader of the country to form the newly elected of communal politics and violence in the country that Government of India. Whether he will be inviting a somehow, in all his animated rallies and publicized ‘mann former colleague from the Saffron Brigade or somebody ki baat’s, the Prime Minister has managed to maintain else, is by far, the most popular topic of speculation in the his extraordinary silence on. What works out brilliantly country at the moment. Predicting the result of the polls for the NDA is the fact that the common farmer or is akin to a round of Russian roulette the uneducated laborer is not expected to understand considering the single bullet nor debate over such matters. The politicizing of the holds the toxic mix of caste Balakot attacks by the BJP allowed it a diversion from and religion. Despite incumbent affairs being the world’s that the Opposition largest electorate, failed to prevent we boast of having with BJP leaders like one of the best Yogi Adityanath percentages of voter referring to the turnout fighting the Armed Forces as “Modi ki Sena”. The constant threat of election of 2019 seems to be swiftly proxy voting. The turning into a ‘Comedy of saffron tide since Errors’ as the twenty one 2014 seems to have odd Party coalition hit a rough patch as or Mahagathbandhan the popularity of Prime with only the slogan Minister Modi and the BJP ‘Modi hatao desh leadership has eroded and they bachao’ between are left without their arguments criticizing them, as they eye the incumbent UPA Government. A ploy that was the ‘ Iron Throne’. A fight of hyenas brew between pivotal in securing the support of the pragmatic voters possible Prime Ministerial Candidates long before the seeking a fresh perspective and a change in leadership last vote has been cast. The BJP gears itself to a possible when they swept the polls five years back. This advantage return and bets are laid as far as the casinos of Las Vegas now seems to rest in the hands of the Congress Party to the number of seats it can claim, the Opposition and its allies as the BJP Government stands caught in sits reticent lending chorus to violence in Bengal and the crossfire of policies it has introduced in the last five religious chant everywhere else. years ranging from the GST, the implementation of The stage has been set and the wheels of a democratic demonitisation and the Rafale deal, which the Congress juggernaut put into motion. The nation readies itself President Rahul Gandhi cannot seem to get enough of. to witness the making of yet another government that Despite a series of controversial moves on the part of may serve itself more than the people of this country. the BJP, the Opposition has failed to optimize on it by The election this season has been about the Congress coming up with a common manifesto. The introduction serving the needs of one family, while the BJP bent to of Priyanka Gandhi Wadhwa as a candidate seems to be the biddings of one man.
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