From ‘Pakistani’ to ‘Bangladeshi’: How BJP reframed its politics of fear is among the main developments being tracked today. The alleged presence of millions of “illegal Bangladeshi migrants” in India, particularly in West Bengal and Assam, is a narrative with enormous elasticity. It...
The alleged presence of millions of “illegal Bangladeshi migrants” in India, particularly in West Bengal and Assam, is a narrative with enormous elasticity.
It simultaneously invokes sovereignty, demographic anxiety, economic grievance, and, crucially, religious identity.
The dust has barely settled on Operation Sindoor, yet India’s ruling Bharatiya Janata Party has already pivoted its political machinery eastward towards Bangladesh and the spectre of “illegal migration.” This is not a reactive shift.
For the better part of two decades, Pakistan was the indispensable villain in India’s nationalist political theatre.
The word itself became a rhetorical weapon, deployed in election rallies, television studios, and WhatsApp forwards with a reliability that bordered on ritual.
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