Battle of conflicting narratives

The gloves are off and the two sides—ruling dispensation and its opponents—are both heading towards a new round of confrontation.

While the Opposition continues to pursue its agenda of removal of Gyanesh Kumar as the Chief Election Commissioner and safeguarding of the Constitution, the BJP is attempting to set its own narrative in order to distract attention from the I.N.D.I.A bloc demands.

Providing its own interpretation to the remarks of young activist Neha Bora that the generation Z has been inspired by the Gen Z of Bangladesh and of senior advocate Prashant Bhushan that there should be a regime change, the saffron brigade is cautioning the citizens that these people were wanting to overthrow the government by undemocratic means.

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The Congress has categorically stated that the regime changes have taken place in the past and shall happen in the future as well, but within the democratic framework, and only through the ballot. This is the widely held view concerning the change of government and in any case Neha Bora and Prashant Bhushan, both are leaders not from any mainstream party and have expressed their opinion based on their own thinking.

The BJP’s aim is to divert attention from the removal of the CEC, whose continuation is nevertheless going to further aggravate the conflict between the ruling dispensation and the opposition. In addition, the BJP has given indications that it shall go ahead with the Women’s Reservation Bill and the session for Parliament to take up the matter may happen shortly. Incidentally, Parliament was not prorogued after the monsoon session and can be reconvened easily.

The national capital has witnessed unprecedented activity in the past few weeks and the Delhi police which has arrested and detained protestors, is being accused of high-handedness bordering on crossing all limits of law enforcement by indulging in unacceptable conduct. On its part, the BJP is shielding the police and in turn accusing the agitating people of breaking the law and attacking the uniformed personnel.