Lok Sabha Elections 2024: How Political Parties' Agenda Changed in Phase 7?

The last day of campaigning for the 2024 Lok Sabha elections is May 30. With the last phase of voting on June 1, all eyes will be on June 4. Who won, who lost or who got what number? It will be known later but there is no doubt that this election campaign will be remembered for some special words and attitudes than the previous elections. This time as a last resort. In this race, no single issue can be sustainable for either party. As the election phases progressed, so did the issues. While the BJP raised more than 400 slogans since its inception, Congress and All India leaders jumped into the fray with slogans of “Save the Constitution and Democracy”. BJP did not fail to convert Congress and other opposition parties from being pro-Muslim to anti-Ram. As soon as the Election Commission announced March 16 as the seven-phase polling date, political party leaders jumped into the fray with a quiver of arrows and words. First, this time more than 400 slogans echoed from the BJP. The echo of this slogan became a shield of sorts for the BJP. Instead of defeating the BJP, Congress and All India leaders concentrated their energies on preventing the number from crossing 400. Guarantee and Assurance The first phase of polling was held on April 19. Prime Minister Narendra Modi used the word guarantee before the election rallies and named every welfare scheme of the central government as Modi's guarantee. But as the election drew closer, the fight between guarantor and guarantor escalated. In response to PM Modi, the Congress party announced 5 guarantees and 25 guarantees in its manifesto, while Aam Aadmi Party National Coordinator Arvind Kejriwal announced 10 guarantees. When the debate on these guarantees began, the Congress said it was the first to use the guarantee in its manifesto for the Karnataka assembly elections. It remains to be seen how much of an impact anyone's guarantee will have on the results. Mahabharata on Mangalasutra: The word Mangalasutra was heard for the first time in an election speech. Prime Minister Narendra Modi launched a scathing attack on the Congress party and its election manifesto in the name of Mangalasutra. In fact, the Congress party had said in its manifesto that wealth inequality would be addressed if it came to power, which also mentioned a national wealth survey, which PM Modi linked to wealth distribution. The affair started with Mangalasutra and went to confiscation of houses, gardens, cows and buffaloes. PM Modi linked it to urban Naxalism and the Muslim League. On the other hand, when Sam Pitroda expressed his views on US inheritance tax at the last moment, BJP also used it as a weapon in the election campaign and launched aggressive attacks on Rahul Gandhi. Reservation issue for Muslims: In the middle of property distribution struggle, the issue of reservation for Muslims is also taking shape and continues for the seventh phase. Meanwhile, former Prime Minister Manmohan Singh's statement on the first right to the country's resources was released, after which not only the Congress, but all parties of the All India Alliance targeted the reservation for Muslims in the OBC quota. Prime Minister Modi and all BJP leaders alleged that the reservation given to Muslims under the OBC quota in Karnataka was a religious reservation and the Congress party wanted to implement it across the country. Penetration, Vote Jihad and Love Jihad: When the Calcutta High Court revoked the OBC certificate of 77 Muslim castes in West Bengal, the BJP got its biggest weapon against protests over Muslim reservation in the election campaign. Although Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee has spoken of going to the Supreme Court against the order, the Trinamool Congress government, under attack in the Sandeshkali case, backed down on the issue in the midst of elections. .Why are the leaders of the Indian alliance silent on the issue of reservation for Muslims? Whenever PM Modi himself goes to rallies in West Bengal, Bihar and Jharkhand, the two words he uses to attack Congress, JMM, RJD and TMC are infiltration and vote jihad. Prime Minister Modi accused the state governments of West Bengal and Jharkhand of encouraging infiltrators. He said the protection of Jharkhand's tribal culture was at risk due to the increasing number of intruders. He also described Jharkhand as the first state to start Love Jigat recently. Opposition campaign to save the Constitution: The slogan of saving the Constitution and democracy in this election has been going on even before the first phase of the elections. Opposition parties have long accused the government of destroying the autonomy of constitutional bodies. But once the BJP leaders started raising slogans of crossing 400, the India coalition came together. And started claiming it was a conspiracy to change the constitution. At election rallies, Rahul Gandhi started appearing with the Constitution on the platform. There is no speech that Rahul Gandhi has not spoken so far that the BJP wants to abolish the Constitution. Along with Rahul Gandhi, Akhilesh Yadav, Arvind Kejriwal and Tejashwi Yadav also attacked PM Modi on this issue. Reply to Opposition on Constitution: However, Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Union Home Minister Amit Shah have openly expressed their views on the issue in all their interviews. He said the allegation of changing the constitution was baseless. Strongly denying the allegation, he said that if there was an intention to change the constitution, it would have been changed in the previous two terms. But at the same time, he lashed out at the Congress party, saying that the party which has amended the constitution more than a hundred times, which has caused injury like emergency to the country, should not talk about the killings. Constitution and Democracy.