Why is the BJP so popular in India?
BJP, whether you like it or not maybe the first party to truly understand the crux of Indian Society and worked accordingly. In other words, they showed the society the mirror. It helped society remove the fake mask it wore for 3 decades in the name of development or liberalism.
Does JP-ruled India have an op-ed-shaped global problem?
B JP-ruled India has an op-ed shaped global problem. Ever since Prime Minister Narendra Modi came to power in 2014, his domestic critics have found new shores to launch their attacks from. These include The Washington Post, The New York Times, Gulf News, The Guardian, and Foreign Affairs, among others.
Why are people not interested in politics?
Dictatorships, as said, are more stable, that is why people may not oppose one person being PM for the entire. That is also the reason, why you must have heard saying that people are not interested in politics because its a disturbance and leads to instability.
Did India ever have a dictatorship?
It is not a surprise that India never had dictatorship as per the classical definitions. But India was neither a democracy before Independence. So technically the entire world is new to a system called democracy. Most of the people still have confusion what is democracy.
Was India a democracy before independence?
India has a parliamentary form of democracy while the US has presidential whereas France has a mix of two. It is not a surprise that India never had dictatorship as per the classical definitions. But India was neither a democracy before Independence.
Does India have more than one party system?
So, India just had nothing more than one party- system just when democracy was born. This continued even after Indira Gandhi was shot dead. Even she herself endorsed one-sided dictatorial slogans like India is Indira and Indira is India. Under her tenure, we had the emergency declared where opposition leaders were jailed.