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Last-ditch attempt to save India’s democracy

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11.08.2024
Minutes after the conclusion of the seventh and the final phase of polling that had polled over 50 Lok Sabha constituencies, the TV news-noise channels began flashing the exit poll results giving abnormal outcome to the ruling Modi government. Some surveys show their supreme leader's party striking over 50 per cent of vote share and crossing the unassailable 400 plus seat lead. As the case with electoral situations in third world like in the African, middle eastern and Latin American political circus that involves massive rigging and voter fraud, Indian elections have sadly fallen prey to these kind of heinous and disturbing process. This 2024 Lok Sabha elections is touted as potentially the last election in a democratic India, and therefore many political commentators are of the belief that this might be the last ditch to save the world’s largest democracy. Nevertheless, the TV news channels (Godhi Media), the WhatsApp university and the ruling Indian middle class refuses to see the obvious, and instead have indulged in hero worshipping of a political leader that refuses to see himself as a biological human. On public platforms during his rallies, the supreme leader openly states “All animals in the........

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