“BJP’s legal goodies before 2024: Cure for netas’ ‘chest pain’ to deshdroh, love jihad to mob lynching”, First Post, December 21, 2023:
“Laws can be powerful electoral currency.
The Congress till date gets the whiplashes for wimping out to Islamists and overturning the Supreme Court’s Shah Bano judgment. Nor will it live down the disgrace of trying to bring the brazenly anti-Hindu Communal Violence Bill of 2011.
The Mandal Commission report and its legal consequences altered Bharat’s politics in profound ways. The Illegal Migrants (Determination by Tribunals) Act, 1983, further fuelled the Assam agitation.
But the ruling BJP led by PM Narendra Modi has embarked on a different journey. Masters at gauging the public mood, it has brought about ideologically aligned ‘positive laws’ as legal reforms. Take the repeal of Articles 370 and 35A from Jammu and Kashmir or banning instant triple talaq, for instance. It has been doing this with extraordinary boldness, certain about the electoral gains it would accrue…..”
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