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Narendra Modi Rishi Sunak Donald Trump: Wherever the election is held, slogans are a way of creating a political atmosphere or creating an atmosphere in favour of one's party. Elections have now become like an event. The slogan sets the story. Then there is a trend of finding faults in each other in rallies and cornering opponents with the magic of words. Let's talk about America, where the presidential election has now been rigged. Trump is preparing the stage for his return to power. Trump played the Christian card in his rally. His supporters even called him a trump card. Now his opponents say that this was not a trump card but a political mistake.
What Trump said was in line with his Republican agenda and narrative. Everyone wants votes for themselves. There is nothing wrong with that. But the choice of words in any statement is important. Sometimes words hurt more than weapons. Something similar happened with Trump. He said something which the Democrat opponents took as his statement and started cornering Trump.
Trump appealed to the Christian community and said that if you vote for me, you will not need to vote, I will fix everything. Now his opponents say that Trump's statement is a threat to democracy. If he wins, the country with the oldest democracy in the world will lose its democracy. According to media reports, human rights lawyer Andrew Seidel alleged that if Trump wins, he will not contest elections again. When actor Morgan Fairchild and NBC legal advisor Katie said that if Trump wins, the countdown of democracy will begin in America.
On the other hand, the popularity graph of the Republican candidate is rising rapidly. Kamala Harris has received record support for the presidency. Kamala also announced her candidacy for the presidency from the Democratic Party, more than two lakh supporters joined her on Zoom call.
Trends! First Modi, then Sunak and now Trump?
Now if we talk about the recently concluded elections in Britain, the ruling Conservative Party of former CM Rishi Sunak lost the elections badly. In India, the slogan of 400 plus which Narendra Modi and his party had raised loudly during the election campaign, could not bring the expected results, but the Label Party which came out in opposition to Sunak, won more than 400 seats and wiped out Sunak. The party was wiped out.
Narrative vs. narrative?
It is worth noting here that as soon as the election was announced, his opponents started creating an atmosphere against Sunak that if Sunak lost the election, he would go to America where he had worked earlier. One such report was published in The Guardian. It has been repeatedly claimed by opposition forces and sources that Sunak may enter the field of AI venture capital in California. Sunak's opponent Goldsmith said that Sunak has a lot of properties in California. Sunak has given clarification several times after the voting results came out. He has rejected the speculation of his going to America. Even Sunak could not counter the narrative established against him.
Did the same thing happen with Narendra Modi?
Now if we talk about India, since 2014, BJP-led NDA government has been continuously formed in the world's largest democracy. In the 2024 Lok Sabha elections, BJP raised the slogan of 'Ab Ki Baar 400 Paar' and its main rivals Congress and Samajwadi Party broke this slogan to such an extent that after the results of the Lok Sabha elections, some BJP leaders openly said that it is 400 Paar. The slogan backfired. It is known that under the allegations of senior BJP leaders, opposition leaders were continuously successful in creating the narrative that now if BJP comes and crosses 400, it will change the Constitution and end reservation. BJP may have never reacted openly on this matter, but how much strength was left in this matter is not hidden from anyone.
When the results were announced on June 4 in India, BJP won 240 seats and formed the government with its allies, but it was left with a clear majority of 32 seats on its own. Now there is a discussion among political experts that the practice of creating narratives in election rallies has harmed Modi in India and Sunak in Britain and will the same thing be repeated with Trump too?