The remarks of Rahul Gandhi, the leader of the political opposition on the day after the announcement of the election results are revealing: “the opposition’s fight was not just against the BJP, but to save the country’s constitution, which the BJP government had tried to destroy”2. [...] The results foreshadow a reshuffling of the balance of power in the Indian political arena, characterized on the one hand by a relative weakening of the BJP, the main component of the NDA, and on the other by the resurgence of the Congress 2.1 The Relative Weakening of the BJP 8 Policy Paper - N° 10/24 - June 2024 Retrospective Analysis of the 2024 Indian Elections: BJP Wins the General Elections. [...] The electoral score obtained by the BJP, nearing 240 seats in the Indian Parliament, is all the more surprising given that towards the end of the electoral campaign and at the beginning of the voting operations, the BJP was widely predicted to be the clear winner, even aiming for 400 seats out of the 543 in the Lok Sabha. [...] india-68236697 17 Policy Paper - N° 10/24 - June 2024 Retrospective Analysis of the 2024 Indian Elections: BJP Wins the General Elections Against the Strengthening Opposition of the INDIA Bloc 3.4 The Status of Muslims in India: The Weakest Link of Indian Democracy The protection of Muslims in India as Indian citizens has become the weakest link of Indian democ. [...] The basic structure arguably consists of the following features: (1) supremacy of the Constitution; (2) republican and democratic form of government; (3) secular character of the Constitution; (4) separation of powers between the legislature, the executive and the judiciary; (5) federal character of the Constitution.
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