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The BJP will not save india

you cannot get rid of the vote but you can weaken the power and influence of the vote, thus undermining democracy. What does it matter if India is the “largest democracy in the world” if the votes of its people are becoming muffled under the disengagement of politics from the markets by privatization?

“There’s a saying in the villages of the Narmada valley—you can wake someone who’s sleeping. But you can’t wake someone who’s pretending to be asleep” When it comes to the politics of forced, involuntary displacement, there’s a deafening silence in this country. People’s eyes glaze over. They behave as though it’s just a blip in the democratic process.” (Roy, 68)