In some ways Rahul Gandhi's Congress has helped BJP achieve a new milestone.
Communist-mukt Bharat. It's like saying --- "our turn has not come yet .... let's see how it looks like to be Communist-free".
For practical purpose, the Congress since 2014-15 is more of a communist party or so-called Urban Naxal.
After more than three decades in power, the Left lost West Bengal in 2011 to Mamata Banerjee. In 2018 and 2023, it lost Tripura to the BJP. And now LDF is lost to Congress-led UDF.
But what does 'Weak communists' rally mean?
It opens the door to Hindu nationalism in India. The pro-Hindutva BJP has been always gaining ground in former Leftist strongholds
The downward slippery journey of Indian communists, electorally and in exerting influence on the sociopolitical mindset, has been phenomenal in the last decade. In the regions where they are losing their grip, the pro-Hindutva BJP is gaining.
The religious minorities who should be happy about 'atheism' losing ground are now more worried about an even worse form of political ideology gaining power.
But in Kerala, it still was Congress that was fighting the Marxists and others.
The BJP, which is allegedly pushing to make India a nation of Hindu hegemony, came to power in Tripura by ousting its communist government in 2018.
The BJP was slowly gaining political support in West Bengal and Kerala, two other communist strongholds. But by 2011 as Mamata came to power in Bengal; the political game was different. The BJP emerged the principal opposition in 2021 and the Left parties scored a zero.
Kerala would have got rid off the Marxists in 2021 itself. But the LDF survived than.
Over the years, BJP's political meetings and roadshows are getting more people than ever before in Kerala too.
That -- according to some analysts wedded to distorted Secularism (that is Sickularism) should worry both Christians and Muslims in the state who have traditionally opposed the BJP's pro-Hindu politics.
The BJP's growing support base naturally means dwindling popularity for Kerala's two traditional political alliances — one led by the Congress party and the other led by leftist parties.
The leftist parties' ouster from power in Kerala, the only state where they were running the government till now, will probobly wipe out communism from Indian politics.
The Marxist-led Left Front lost power in their one-time stronghold West Bengal in 2011 after ruling the state for 34 years at a stretch.
In 2018, the Communist Party of India (Marxist) lost power in yet another small state, Tripura, which has a sizable number of native Christian tribal people and a large number of Hindu Bengalis.
Nevertheless Kerala's communist leader and the outgoing chief minister, Pinarayi Vijayan, deserves credit for fighting it on.
He refused to move along the stricter communist path the comrades walked in Tripura and West Bengal.
Critics said Vijayan already "tinted the red flag of the communists with the hues of saffron", the color associated with Hindus.
In other words, he ran the extra mile not to offend Hindus with his so-called reformist and progressive communist ideas.
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| Some years - We 'rediscovered' God's own Country - never realising Marxists would be out one day |
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