No ruling dispensation in the entire journey of Independent India's democratic and republican polity until now, has harmed the ideas enshrined in the preamble of the constitution as has the present Bharatiya Janata Party-led NDA regime. The top leadership of the BJP is duping people using mudslinging, propaganda, money power, muscle power and hollow rhetoric. These have not only disillusioned the people but also hit at the very idea of democracy. The poor were deliberately misled in 2014 and now their hopes and aspirations are being muzzled to create Savarkar's idea of India, in which even the upper caste poor and marginalised along with Dalit, backward castes and minorities have no space.

In the last few years, we have seen BJP’s repeated attempts to polarise people on communal lines ahead of state elections, setting aside all morals, ethos and values of democracy. What should have been considered unethical is now being shamelessly labelled ‘Chanakya niti’ by subservient sections of the media. The real issues are being placed on the back burner. No one is talking about unemployment, poverty relief, agrarian crisis, increasing incidents of mob lynching, deteriorating law and order, poor health services, rudderless education system, badly suffering social harmony and national integration. As was the case in Nazi Germany, fictitious enemies are being created and the nation’s attention is being diverted away from real issues. This BJP tactic is being employed with massive support from a section of the media.

Why this need to divert? You see our incumbent Prime Minister Mr Narendra Damodardas Modi has a very big problem. He had made lot of tall promises in the run-up the last Lok Sabha elections. On the basis of these tall promises, he managed to gain power. Even after 50 months of his tenure, rather than being in answering mode and presenting his report card, he remains in questioning mode and only keeps posing questions against the Opposition for their role since after Independence. This is because he has no great achievements of his own to show. People posed their faith in him by providing a clear majority to a party after 30 years, however rather than respecting the mandate and reporting on his work, he incorrectly keeps attacking the main opposition party about decade-old events.

Prime Minister Modi has summarily failed to find answers to any real issue confronting the nation, therefore he has to rely on showbiz and media management. He has reduced national government to event management, concerned only about headlines and TV prime time debates. Every small thing he does is being presented in a larger than life way with the help of manipulated data, false claims and supportive media houses hungry for government ads. Never before in the history of a poor country did a government spend a whopping amount ₹4,343 crores on image and brand building for its PM, fake glorification and propaganda spreading. To grab hold of their ‘share’ of this big kitty, the media houses started crawling to the tune of the Pied Piper, with least concern for professional ethics and their own credibility.

Take any project of this RSS-backed government from Stand up India, Start up India, Digital India, Make in India, India, Beti Padhao Beti Bachao, Swachh Bharat, and so on—they are all initiatives that lack substance but are high on hollow visions, dreams, slogans and self-indulgent gimmicks.