The first set of people who want this government back is the corporate houses, two among them are well-known to everybody. They cannot have a government better than this, which is ready to hand over all natural and public resources to them so that they can maximise their profits. As we have already seen, it is the government which has killed and driven out Adivasis from their homes to make forests and mines available to the corporates. It has already started happening in Chhattisgarh where Adivasis are being driven out of villages.

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The second set of people are unseen but part of the deep state who would like this government to come back. People in higher bureaucracy and in various investigative agencies that have worked as the agents of the Bharatiya Janata Party-led government to finish off the opposition and civil society. There is also a section of the judiciary which seems to have aligned itself with the present regime. The government has also been trying to create ideological sympathisers in the armed forces. The extraordinary step of a one-month extension to the army chief has raised this question afresh.

The Rashtriya Swayamsewak Sangh (RSS) could not have expected a time like this. It has access to all state resources and near total control over educational and cultural institutions across India. Also,........

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