It was the opposition that fought tooth and nail in opposition to digital election rallies and now they’re blaming PM Modi

The scenes from West Bengal are infuriating liberals. More exactly, it’s the BJP’s large success in pulling crowds to its occasions and marketing campaign rallies that’s bewildering opposition events and its leaders. Citing the excuse of Covid-19 – liberals, opposition events and their cheerleaders have ganged up in opposition to the saffron celebration, and begun demanding that each one election rallies be banned contemplating the surge in infections which India is going through. Taken on face worth, this suggestion of the opposition and its liberal courtiers is noble and humane. However, it’s gigantically hypocritical as effectively.Bihar went to polls final 12 months, and the NDA was in a position to win the state. In the runup to the marketing campaign for the Bihar polls kicking off, the BJP below PM Modi had recommended, together with the JD(U), that election rallies be held in digital mode solely, contemplating the prevalence of the pandemic. Back then, opposition events had fought the concept they’re at the moment advocating. The opposition to digital rallies was obtained from opposition events in India alone. Liberals and mainstream media, after all, determined to not give BJP any credit score for attempting to stop bodily rallies for the Bihar polls.Now, nonetheless, the Congress is of the opinion that digital rallies ought to have been mandated for the West Bengal polls, aside from the elections in 4 different states which have already culminated. Gandhi spokesperson and Rajasthan chief minister Ashok Gehlot stated, “On the one hand we ask people to follow Covid protocol and on the other hand crowd of lakhs of people continued to gather in election rallies and roadshows. It has been going on since Bihar elections…If politicians had wanted, they could have stopped the crowd by using options like virtual rallies.”If politicians had needed, they may have stopped the gang by utilizing choices like digital rallies.— Ashok Gehlot (@ashokgehlot51) April 16, 2021Last 12 months, when the EC had known as for consultations over the prospect of an only-digital/digital marketing campaign for the Bihar polls, opposition events just like the Congress, RJD and Left had outraged like there was no tomorrow. Such events argued that the idea “is socially and economically discriminatory” and, thus, in opposition to the “principle of equality” and “violative of a level-playing field in the democratic exercise” as digital campaigns might exclude a big part of the agricultural individuals and the poor who haven’t any entry to digital connectivity.The stand of the opposition events and liberals now, throughout the essential West Bengal polls which the BJP should essentially win exhibits that the considerations usually are not health-related, however purely political in nature. By attempting to derail bodily campaigns when the BJP has invested a lot in them, the vested curiosity teams try to make sure that the saffron celebration doesn’t win. Sadly for them, the EC is in no temper to contemplate their senseless ideas.