By Admin 
Campaigning for the assembly elections is going on in full swing in five states. All political parties are in the electoral fray on different issues, but in this election, emotional issues and local identity issues dominate more than development issues. Be it Assam, West Bengal, Kerala or Tamil Nadu, all political parties are increasingly raising the issue of local identity in the elections.
Development issues are missing in the election campaign. No roads, no employment, no development. This time identity and culture have entered the elections. From West Bengal to Assam and Tamil Nadu, the script is different everywhere, but the story is one of identity politics. Now the question arises who will get the votes. Which will count the work or which will arouse emotion.
Which issue cropped up the most in Bengal?
Talking about West Bengal Assembly elections, this time the biggest issue in the elections has not become development but identity versus identity. The work of the government for 15 years has gone backstage and the superhit dialogues of nationalism, religion and identity have come to the front.
BJP’s script is clear, if majority of voters come together then seats will also come together. Therefore, now there is less discussion of roads and more of borders in speeches. Less of employment and more of infiltration. One is hearing less about development and more about religious balance.
The identity of West Bengal is mentioned in the speeches of all the big leaders. On one hand, BJP leaders are raising the issue of demographic change and calling it a threat to Bengal identity. The focus of the Home Minister is the issue of border security and infiltration, which he is raising in election meetings.
Infiltration and UCC issue in Assam
Mamata Banerjee is accusing BJP of not allowing people to eat eggs after coming to power and is talking about attack on the culture and food of Bengal. Now elections have become a full package of not only religion but also language, food and regional pride and this is not just a story of Bengal but issues like UCC and identity are being raised rapidly in Assam also.
Chief Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma is talking about saving Assamese identity by raising the issue of infiltrators and UCC and is also raising the issue of demographic change by talking about driving out the Miyans. However, Himanta says that by Mian he means Bangladeshi infiltrators. Congress is also making this statement of the Chief Minister an issue and calling it an attack on the identity and culture of Assam.
Which issue dominates in Tamil Nadu and Kerala?
The story seems to be almost the same in Tamil Nadu also. In Tamil Nadu, the fight of Hindutva vs Dravidian identity is going on in the elections. While DMK is raising the issue of our language and our culture, BJP is running in the elections with the narrative of Hindutva.
Soft politics of religion and culture is also going on in Kerala. Be it BJP, Congress or Left, everyone is raising the issue of gold theft in Sabarimala temple. Here also all the parties are raising the issue of Kerala culture loudly in the elections. Overall, states are changing, characters are changing, but the election script of the parties remains the same – politics of identity and identity.
Now the results of May 4 will reveal which party the public trusts on the issue of culture and identity, but these issues have made the elections interesting this time.