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#JusticeForAbhaya || #JusticeForRGKar || Antidisestablishmentarianistic
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Modern-day political nepotism has a tendency to create a form of "informal monarchy" through several mechanisms, primarily by manipulating democratic processes to ensure power is concentrated within specific families or networks. Here’s how it works: ### 1. Using the Mandate to Solidify Power: A. Exploiting Electoral Legitimacy: Political leaders, after winning elections, often use their democratic mandate to consolidate personal and familial power. While they may come to office through legitimate elections, once in power, they manipulate the system to entrench their rule. This includes weakening institutions, limiting opposition, and changing laws to prolong their stay in power. B. Populism as a Tool: Leaders may employ populist rhetoric to maintain popular support, portraying themselves as the only ones capable of leading, while using their mandate to justify **undemocratic practices**. ### 2. Passing Power from One Generation to Another: A. Family Dynasties: Through nepotism, political leaders ensure their family members are groomed for leadership positions, often transitioning power from one generation to the next. This creates political dynasties that resemble monarchies, where leadership stays within the family. B. Control Over Key Institutions: By appointing family members to influential roles within government, military, or judiciary, they create a network of loyalists that ensures continuity of power, making it easier to pass leadership from one generation to another. ### 3. Using Mandate and Power to Ensure Hereditary Transfer: A. Manipulating Laws and Institutions: Leaders often amend constitutions or manipulate legal frameworks to enable the hereditary transfer of power, ensuring that family members can assume leadership positions after them. This can include extending term limits, weakening electoral oversight, or even influencing party leadership processes. B. Building a Political Legacy: By using state resources and power, leaders create a cult of personality around their family name, making it seem natural that power should remain within the family. This legitimizes hereditary succession in the eyes of their supporters, even though it undermines democratic principles. In this way, political nepotism turns democratic systems into quasi-monarchies, where power is concentrated within families across generations, eroding true democratic governance.
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The #BJPGovt seems to have made a critical misstep. An overly socialist, populist budget is beginning to shake investor confidence, leading to a downturn in the stock market. It might be a result of peer pressure or an attempt to match similar policies, but in the long run, this approach could seriously undermine the economy. God Help Us 🙏 #StockMarketIndia
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@Amockx2022 Venugopal is just like a बर्तन वाली बाई of the Italian family. He knows nothing. This Big ZERO was a Masterstroke by your shadow PM Rahul Gandhi and Missionary Manio. Clearly they are on a mission 🤣😂
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@vijaythottathil @ShivAroor You better stop sniffing Pappu's unwanted places. The bar dancer party cannot be in the race for Delhi. No need to mention
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RT @rishibagree: A New Record : Congress candidates lost deposits in 67 out of 70 seats in Delhi.
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Thank you Delhi voters for reminding these jailbirds their aukat. #DelhiAssemblyElection2025
#delhielectionresults2025
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These #Toolkit creatures are the most shameless creatures ever produced
END OF AAP 🚨🚨 > Arvind Kejriwal is losing ⚡ > Manish Sisodia is losing ⚡ > Atishi is losing ⚡ > Saurabh Bhardwaj is losing ⚡ THANK YOU RAHUL GANDHI 🗿🔥
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#BREAKING 100th successive failure by @INCIndia under the able leadership of the Italian family - @RahulGandhi, @priyankagandhi and Maino. This time they couldn't even open the account. Great achievement 🔥 #DelhiElections2025
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Today, again all the Khalistani, Pakistani, and Chinese handles (in short Khangress & Commis) will post this 👇 "Democracy is in danger" "EC is corrupted" "EVM was hacked" .... so on and so forth. #DelhiElectionResults
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@KunalGhoshAgain প্রত্যেক বছর পাত্রপক্ষ কনে দেখে গান্ডেপিণ্ডে গিলে 'প্রায়' পাকা কথা বলে চলে যায়। দুঃখের বিষয় কি জানেন, আজ 12-14 বছর পার হয়ে গেলো কিন্তু বিয়ে টা আর হয়ে উঠলনা। দেখাযাক এইবছর যদি কিছু হয়।
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So called "Educated" politicians know how to use their every available resource. #DelhiAssemblyElection2025
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