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by thisislife2·2y ago·view on hn ↗
Oh, it is going to be a huge issue in the future. Look at Bangalore. Once farmers too start facing water shortage, the shit will hit the fan.

The Modi government is not known for its long-term thinking - in fact, they are very bad planners as they don't have the requisite experience. Their whole approach to running a government is to treat it like a corporate business - "hey, this thing will make us money and create good PR for us, let's do it!". They have no vision for capacity building. Look at the whole electoral bond scam the Modi government ran and used to enrich themselves - it was legalised corruption worse than the corporate lobbying that exists in America. They even combined it by giving lower ranking IT official (who tend to be more corrupt) extra-ordinary powers of investigation, and draconian powers to the Enforcement Directorate to seize property and used both to extort money from questionable and / or corrupt businesses.

The last 10 years of Modi rule has seen the largest transfer of wealth from the public to the rich, with Modi personally acting as the middle-man and raking money from it too.

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I don’t know about their long term thinking when it comes to policy but politically the BJP has meticulously planned and successfully carried out a takeover of the Indian political system in a strategy that spanned atleast 4 decades.
Not really. The political growth of the BJP is all artificial and due to external factors - from the loss of institutional political knowledge that the Congress suffered due to its split and the back to back death of their leaders (Sanjay Gandhi, Indira Gandhi, Rajiv Gandhi) to the capitalist-right who were seeking a pliable alternative to the Congress. And today it is these capitalist-right who are in political control - as they are trying to create a US type military-industrial political system in India. Modi is just their puppet and is a fool who doesn't even realise it.
This is probably a rather misguided simplification of the Indian politics. The BJP plan almost started the tail end of 1980s. Capitalist right do not control the political leaders in India. At least that's not the case with current govt.