Prof K Nageshwar: The gap between voters and parties (Video)

           ,   || The gap between voters and parties ||

The Hyderabad municipal election is the new testing ground for communal rhetoric in a secular city, overshadowing voters concerns and development debates. National issues, Article 370, Ayodhya and Pulwama have eclipsed peoples demands for better roads, sanitation and health.

Over 40% of Hyderabad voters, in a recent study, stated that they are able to afford food with difficulty. Of these, over 90% stated that their food consumption has decreased as compared to earlier years. More than 95% of the respondents also supported Right to Recall, to have more powers over the corporators in Greater Hyderabad Municipal Corporation (GHMC), which goes to polls on December 1.

The study was done by the New Delhi-based research organisation, Institute of Perception Studies, which works in the areas of electoral reforms and democratic deficit, with special focus on municipal and panchayat levels. The study was conducted between November 1 and 15, 2020, and covered 15 out of the 30 circles in Hyderabad.

Instead of the development agenda, issues that have hijacked the election campaign are worship in temples and masjids, the symbolism of biryani, Rohingya Muslims, surgical strikes, Pulwama, Kashmir, Pakistan and changing names Hyderabad to Bhagyanagar, and Hussein Sagar to Vinayak Sagar. Uttar Pradesh chief minister Yogi Adityanath drew a parallel, saying Faizabad was changed to Ayodhya, and Allahabad to Prayagraj. During his campaign, he also promised that voters of Hyderabad can buy land in Jammu and Kashmir.

Top Bharatiya Janata Party campaigners in the city are Amit Shah, J.P. Nadda, Smriti Irani assisted by a non-campaign visit by Prime Minister Narendra Modi to check on a vaccine development facility in the city. Free vaccine to voters, incidentally, is one of the BJPs assurances. The Telangana Rashtra Samithi (TRS) and All India Majlis-e-Ittehad-ul-Muslimeen (AIMIM) are having to match and counter the divisive narrative, which is only strengthening it. The Congresss weak presence, which has made the entry of the BJP possible in the first place, does not divert this discourse, or its evident result.
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, || The gap between voters and parties || The Hyderabad municipal election is the new testing ground for communal rhetoric in a secular city, overshadowing voters concerns and development debates. National issues, Article 370, Ayodhya and Pulwama have eclipsed peoples demands for better roads, sanitation and health. Over 40% of Hyderabad voters, in a recent study, stated that they are able to afford food with difficulty. Of these, over 90% stated that their food consumption has decreased as compared to earlier years. More than 95% of the respondents also supported Right to Recall, to have more powers over the corporators in Greater Hyderabad Municipal Corporation (GHMC), which goes to polls on December 1. The study was done by the New Delhi-based research organisation, Institute of Perception Studies, which works in the areas of electoral reforms and democratic deficit, with special focus on municipal and panchayat levels. The study was conducted between November 1 and 15, 2020, and covered 15 out of the 30 circles in Hyderabad. Instead of the development agenda, issues that have hijacked the election campaign are worship in temples and masjids, the symbolism of biryani, Rohingya Muslims, surgical strikes, Pulwama, Kashmir, Pakistan and changing names Hyderabad to Bhagyanagar, and Hussein Sagar to Vinayak Sagar. Uttar Pradesh chief minister Yogi Adityanath drew a parallel, saying Faizabad was changed to Ayodhya, and Allahabad to Prayagraj. During his campaign, he also promised that voters of Hyderabad can buy land in Jammu and Kashmir. Top Bharatiya Janata Party campaigners in the city are Amit Shah, J.P. Nadda, Smriti Irani assisted by a non-campaign visit by Prime Minister Narendra Modi to check on a vaccine development facility in the city. Free vaccine to voters, incidentally, is one of the BJPs assurances. The Telangana Rashtra Samithi (TRS) and All India Majlis-e-Ittehad-ul-Muslimeen (AIMIM) are having to match and counter the divisive narrative, which is only strengthening it. The Congresss weak presence, which has made the entry of the BJP possible in the first place, does not divert this discourse, or its evident result. https://thewire.in/politics/hyderabad-ghmc-elections-development-communalism

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