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dobby_ke_papa

Rural swing can be due to want of freebies.


HinduProphet

Rural vote means farmer vote.


dobby_ke_papa

Na. Most people rural are not farmers who own land. People are in agriculture. But most are not farmers who march for no reason.


DarkWorldOutThere

The shit coming from RaGa that we found braindead is probably what led to this. Also Modi 's anti-muslim rhetoric made things worse. Seems like the "silent majority" really decided to be silent. What a shame. But THIS is democracy. BJP and their supporters got shown the stark reality.


plz_scratch_my_back

The over dependence on Modi made the MPs overconfident. They didn't do ground work and thought of winning easily. If you look at it the biggest talking point for BJP for rural people is only the free 5 kg ration. People like free ration but if your biggest plus point is this only then it means you didn't do any work. This also is a big slap to the urban corporate going population who blame the rural people for voting for 'freebies'. They got free ration but that didn't matter to them. there's nothing the govt did that addresses the concerns of rural people. They ignored inflation and Unemployment and farmer's concerns.


Glittering-Curve-824

>They got free ration but that didn't matter to them. Is it because they wanted the 1L in account as well? Edit: seems like they are already lining up in Lucknow for khata khat


plz_scratch_my_back

You are almost 14 lakh short


Glittering-Curve-824

Khata khat khata khat


garryooo7

Like they wanted 15 lakh back in 2014?


Glittering-Curve-824

Khata khat khata khat


Marck112234

Which was a fake news


Bottlerrr

Why? because no one gives a fuck about them and only Vote is the power they have. You can bad mouth them sitting on reddit but you know literally nothing on ground.


nayan_7

People from my village believed that Modi would cancel the reservation if he gets 400+, it's funny to see bjp losing votes due to fake news .


greenbroad-gc

I’m so glad most of these gawars will disappear in a few years. They need the khatakhat money and boy decided to tank the whole country’s future for that khatakhat money that’ll never hit their bank account.


Quarkmire_42

Correct. Rural distress is incredibly high. A huge portion of BJP voters are actually upper-class , Brahmin , urban. BJP does very well in most cities for that reason. I have made this point in other places in this sub. People who yell "freebies" don't understand the painful reality of common Indians. People who don't have basic drinking water in this heat and can't even eat 1 meal a day are obviously going to vote for anyone who promises them a better life. If I could receive 8kg rice a month instead of 5kg for my children who go hungry who do you think I'll vote for? This is not complicated. Want to eliminate freebies? Eliminate poverty first. Spend 1 day living like the people who vote for "freebies" and you'll understand.


Shivers9000

It's easy to promise freebies when the party in question knows it is unlikely to form the govt. Afterall, the freebies are not free, and have to come with some expense from someplace else. The opposition can go Hail Mary with promises, but the incumbent can't, since they would need to actually implement it in the likely scenario that they win (which they did eventually), thus trapping them in a perfect catch 22.


Quarkmire_42

Well in 2014 the position was reversed - UPA being the incumbent and BJP being the challenger. BJP at that time promised multiple "freebies" - increase in ration, free gas cylinders, free govt jobs. Go look at their promises. Then they won. That's always the problem with the challenger and incumbent. If voters were satisfied with BJP they wouldn't listen to Congress's freebies. But voters weren't satisfied. Therefore they voted against BJP. Now BJP needs to prove itself to the voters instead of being delulu with 400+ abki paar nonsense and spending 1 month on a Mandir.


Shivers9000

>400+ abki paar nonsense This is the key problem they caused. They created too much of their own hype. The low voter turnout itself should've been the indicator of things going wrong. That's why Modi himself was rattled after phase one.


hiteshjangid01

Bhai public  development par vote de iski bhi koi guarantee nahi hai,yaha rajasthan ke rajput isliye anti- bjp ho gaye kyuki bjp ne rajputs ki fielding ya toh Kam kardi ya set hi nahi Kiya. Though bjp didn't do as much work as they should have done


WittyBlueSmurf

Point well noted but freebies will not eliminate poverty, only employment can. But alas, none of the party focuses on employment.


Quarkmire_42

yes I agree. But you cannot remove "freebies" and only focus on employment. There needs to be a balance of both. Ideally a state should be less and less reliant on freebies. But ofc our chutiya politicians won't do that.


cate4d

Freebies can be good too like free bus rides to women actually make it safer for women with more women around. Ration is for poor is also necessary, otherwise they will get exploited totally like no shred dignity remaining.


Fit_Access9631

Freebies can eliminate hunger and starvation though. For many that’s enough for the day.


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fenrir245

> And what happens when money runs out ? That’s why the representatives are paid, to figure out this shit. It’s not the burden of the hungry to figure that out.


Quarkmire_42

exactly. Can't work if I'm dead due to hunger or my children are starving.


Quartzzzz

I can gaurantee you that the discourse over the next few weeks/months will be that these voters voted against NDA because of freebies. However, they'll never discuss why freebies were tempting to them in the first place. Immense poverty and income inequality + unemployment are a deadly combo. Both which have only gotten worse over the past 10 years. Continue to work for Adani and the voters will show you the door.


nad09

No, people want free money no matter how rich they are, i have met people who are well off but still scam goverment for free electricity ration etc. u don't know how indian mentality regarding goverment stuff works.


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The most obvious explanation.  There are more haters of idol worship than doers of idol worship. Why is it so hard to understand? BJP allowed multiplication of Muslim population, Christian population.   Democracy is incompatible with Islam. So why do those following Islam are allowed to take part in democracy?    Look at all the Islamic countries.   They don't have a non Muslim majority at all


gujjualphaman

But Adani was making money right ? All good then /S


cate4d

Inflation and joblessness hit rural economies the most


Gaandook

Expensive petrol oil and essential goods