After securing an absolute majority in two successive elections, even crossing the 300 mark in 2019, the BJP was anticipating a crushing defeat of its opposition this time too. But by the end of 4th June, It was clear that BJP alone would not secure the absolute majority and had to rely on the pre-poll partners to stake a claim at the government. Following three months of intense canvassing and campaigning to secure the ‘janadesh’ (people’s mandate) in their favor, the 2024 general elections concluded with the BJP-led NDA obtaining the necessary mandate to the government. INDIA alliance’s dogged persistence ensured a remarkable 234 seats to its name, thereby rendering BJP well short of the halfway mark in a 543-member Lok Sabha. This verdict has landed the Modi-Shah duo in uncharted territory, wherein they not only have to accommodate non-BJP and ideologically non-aligning parties but also have to rely on them for any legislative moves. Although BJP is the major constituent of the NDA, now, with truncated seats, it will be difficult to formulate and execute laws with disdain, which, with given numbers in Parliament, previously would do. Collective in Democracy Democracy is about the collective and never about individuals; therefore, when an individual becomes bigger, then the reduction of the size of an individual in any democracy is always a positive sign for a vibrant democracy. The most significant factor of the 2024 general election was the BJP’s overconfident sail on “Modi Magic”, where BJP time and again reiterated ‘400 Paar’. However, the Indian public showed that the “Modi Magic” appeared to have waned significantly and brought the BJP to 240. The opposition’s election goal was to save the constitution and thereby democracy itself from the arbitrary use of individual power and their vendetta politics. Fortunately, they succeeded in all of it. Democracies should never be about an individual or a party, but collective, and the election results reiterated it loudly. Coalition Discomforts INDIA Alliance was a coalition of contradictions, a contradiction to the way by which PM Modi ran the Parliament. There is no doubt that PM Modi……
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