Livid at being discriminated against and treated with disdain by the Modi government, people residing in many of the country’s border regions came out strongly against the BJP in the recent Lok Sabha elections.
The general elections are over. The results have come in. The people have spoken, albeit in different voices. But when it comes to some of the sensitive border regions of India, they have spoken in one voice. Loud and clear, it is against the ruling government. It must be heard by the new government or we run the risk of further alienating the people from these borderlands. One should remember that the core of the country is only as strong as the periphery.
Let’s begin with the north. In Ladakh, this was the first parliamentary election after August 2019, when …
Sushant Singh is a lecturer at Yale University. Previously, he was a senior fellow at the Centre for Policy Research, New Delhi, and deputy editor of The Indian Express. A winner of the prestigious Ramnath Goenka Excellence in Journalism Awards in 2017 and 2018, he had earlier served in the Indian Army for two decades. He is also the author of Mission Overseas and co-author of Note by Note: The India Story.
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