10 Languages, 10-Day Mass Join & Modi’s Message: How BJP Plans To Win Narrative Struggle – News18

Final Up to date:Might 13, 2025, 14:54 IST

BJP’s ‘Tiranga Yatra’ will see the get together crediting PM Modi’s management, whereas highlighting opposition statements that got here throughout as tacitly supporting Pakistan

Operation Sindoor is “paused”, as Prime Minister Narendra Modi places it, setting narrative of a “new regular” of “crushing terror universities” like Bahawalpur and Muridke. In most likely certainly one of his most easy addresses to the nation, PM Modi refused to take any credit score however showered reward on India’s tri-service, paramilitary, and scientific neighborhood for Operation Sindoor.

Stressing that it was Pakistan that requested for a ceasefire, the prime minister warned: “I’m repeating; we’ve got simply suspended our retaliatory motion towards Pakistan’s terror and army camps. Within the coming days, we are going to measure each step of Pakistan on the criterion of what kind of perspective it adopts forward.”

However on this age of knowledge warfare, the place Pakistan has flooded the web with doctored video to counsel it demolished India’s prized S400 air defence system, or their prime minister’s midnight press convention claiming “victory”, how does BJP plan to take Modi’s message of “India struck on the coronary heart of Pakistan”?

MODI’S MESSAGE IN 10 LANGUAGES

On Monday, PM Modi reminded the world that he nonetheless believes it’s not the age of conflict however “neither is it the age of terror”. The prime minister, utilizing the event of Buddha Poornima, despatched out the message of peace however with a caveat: “The trail of peace additionally goes via energy”.

For individuals who puzzled about US President Donald Trump’s supply of mediating within the Kashmir matter, Modi left nothing to confusion for the home crowd. “At this time, I’d additionally like to inform the worldwide neighborhood that our acknowledged coverage has been: if there are talks with Pakistan, will probably be solely on terrorism; and if there are talks with Pakistan, will probably be solely on Pakistan-occupied Kashmir (PoK).”

However the issue lies with the language through which he spoke—Hindi. Based on the 2011 census, solely 43.63 per cent of the individuals in India can communicate Hindi. The southern and north-eastern states, aside from Arunachal Pradesh and Sikkim, have a really low proportion of Hindi audio system. As an illustration, in Tamil Nadu solely 2.3 per cent communicate Hindi. So how will Modi’s message attain them?

The federal government used Synthetic Intelligence and dubbed PM Modi’s speech in 10 regional languages in an hour’s time—Telegu, Bengali, Gujarati, Assamese, Malayalam, Marathi, Tamil, Punjabi, Kannada and Odia. They beamed the regional variations in respective Doordarshan channels and launched on YouTube channels, garnering huge eyeballs and taking the message deep.

BJP’s TIRANGA YATRA

If the federal government is taking Modi’s message of “We’ve got defeated Pakistan each time” to the lots with a number of languages, the BJP isn’t sitting idle both.

The get together now plans to carry a 10-day nationwide mass join motion via which it plans to not simply painting a courageous face of the BJP-led Centre however will inevitably do a distinction of response between Congress-led UPA period and BJP-led NDA period. The motion can be known as ‘Tiranga Yatra’, which is predicted to kick off from Might 13 and can proceed until Might 23.

BJP won’t simply maintain press conferences throughout main capitals, however its member of MPs, common secretaries, and even choose Union ministers, can be requested to tour sure states the place they are going to attain out to intellectuals, senior residents, dealer our bodies, golf equipment amongst others, say sources. BJP’s Yuva Morcha and Mahila Morcha may also be used throughout this ‘Tiranga Yatra’ the place the objective can be to say victory and credit score PM Modi’s management, whereas highlighting opposition statements that got here throughout as tacitly supporting Pakistan.

BJP will mount a social media marketing campaign with common a number of reels on Instagram concentrating on the youth, whereas the cadres will distribute leaflets highlighting, in bullet factors, why Operation Sindoor is a ‘gamechanger’, a BJP supply advised News18.

With Bihar election scheduled within the year-end, lower than six months from now, one can count on BJP to develop into extra aggressive in its narrative conflict within the coming days.

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