The Lok Sabha polls of 2019 were billed as a battle for the idea of India, a pivotal juncture in the history of the world’s largest democracy whose outcome would shape the fate of the nation for years to come. Twelve months on from that monumental election, the idea of India has indeed undergone a significant alteration, with the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) using its resounding mandate as a pretext to unleash a brand of majoritarian nationalism that is unprecedented in the timeline of independent India.
Narendra Modi, the prime minister of India and the self-proclaimed chowkidar for more than a billion people, has been at the heart of this historic transformation- complacent, even complicit, in the erosion of the democratic and secular foundations of modern India.
Following the formal passage of the triple talaq bill into law in July 2019 – a decision that was largely welcomed across India, except by some condemning the criminal provisions of the act as being too harsh – Modi’s government enacted the most temerarious decision of its regime by abrogating Article 370 (of the Constitution of India) in August, and converting the only Muslim majority state of India, Jammu and Kashmir, into separate Union Territories.
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