2024: A Year Of Political Turmoil And Global Political Change

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• Jan 3, 2025 | Kabita Pathak

India has entered 2025 yet the political environment remains
unstable, competitive and witnessing battles on ideologies…

Digital Desk: As the year progressed and especially entered the year 2024, political developments in India as well as on the international level reached crucial and unpredictable turn. Usually, people had seen a sudden change, the failure of long-established powers, and unexpected outcomes of elections. These have laid a foundation for change in political discourse form 2025 and later years to come. Below, one will find key events and trends that helped form the year.

Global Shocks and Surprises
Similarly, nobody expected how David sweep in United States
with Donald Trump or how Keir Starmer sweep United Kingdom recently. In the Middle East, such as the case with Bashar al-Assad in Syria, the fall of regimes came as a surprise to the people In South Asia, the same can be said about the Sheikh Hasina government in Bangladesh. Sri Lanka had what could be termed a shocking upset in favour of Anura Kumara Dissanayake while Pakistan’s political instability continued to deepen. In Europe political unrest were witnessed in France and Germany, the government’s lost parliamentary confidence and hinted crises in 2025.
India’s Political Landscape: A Roller-Coaster Ride
For the 2024 Lok Sabha elections, Narendra Modi and BJP appeared well on their way to victory in the third term in India. A functioning stock market, a Ram Temple in Ayodhya and a spirited campaign made several people believe BJP was sure to triumph. Nevertheless, the outcome of the election came as a shock to most of the country residents. Such was the political arithmetic that for the first time in his political career, Modi had to enter into a coalition government with ideologically disparate regional parties.
 
As such, the opposition saw a revival of sorts in the BJP’s poll performance, while the party had come out with flying colours in the assembly polls in Haryana and Maharashtra. This resurgence placed more bothered over INDIA alliance partners which the party was already struggling to contain after its third consecutive Lok Sabha defeat.\ State subject to roll back soon: Democracy restored in Jammu and Kashmir.
 In 2024, Jammu and Kashmir had a flavours of democracy with
holding of elections. Although,the candidates belonging to Engineer Rashid’s Awami Ittehad Party and Jamaat-e-Islami were able to contest, people reposed their faith in the recognizable political parties, that are entrenched in the
democracy.

Regional Shifts: Odisha’s Political Earthquake
In Odisha, the incumbent Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik left the scene with his party BJD after 24 years and thus creating a new Odisha politics.
  Five things to
monitor in 2025
monitor in 2025
1. Growing Political-linearization
The Lok Sabha elections which took place in 2024 signaled
that people were in favor of more of the same, but much more moderate, however
both BJP and Congress appear to have gotten it wrong. Political enmity
increased and fanned by rancour, and hostility transcended the manner in which members of Parliament addressed each other. More importantly, what ha pened was the opposition parties tried a coup to dismiss the vice-president Jagdeep
Dhankhar from his office, and an FIR was lodged against Rahul Gandhi that
soured relations. The two parties need to come to an understanding on how to bring back courtesy.
 
2. With newly
emerging big mandir-masjid politics the Muslim rule was to turn again into a
different color so as to suit the new emerging orthodox religious policies, emerging big mandir-masjid politics the Muslim rule was to turn again into a different color so as to suit the new emerging orthodox religious policies.
The Supreme Court recently put a temporary stop to new petitions for civil cases regarding the Ability of Muslims to pray at places of worship that certain groups assert were built upon Hindu temple debris.

Nevertheless, with 18 petitions that concern ten sites pending across the courts including Uttar Pradesh the issue continues to be a political one. Losing to the SP and Congress in Uttar Pradesh has raised the political pressure for the BJP as the state gears up to the upcoming Assembly election season in 2027.
3. Assembly Elections
of Bihar and Delhi of Bihar and Delhi
 
On the political front , Nitish Kumar, Arvid Kejriwal, and Narendra Modi, all have their crucial phases in 2025. Nitish Kumar needs to protect his  place and power in Bihar from increasing protests led by Tejashwi Yadav. Delhi: AAP is facing corruption charges Under the leadership of Arvind Kejriwal. On the other hand, the BJP seeks political respectability in New Delhi after a series of electoral disappointments.
 
4. Contentious Legislation Ahead
Parliament will tackle two polarizing bills in 2025: The other two were the Constitution Amendment Bill for combination of Lok Sabha and State Assembly elections, and Wakf Properties Bill. There are problems on the ground to get the required numbers for the One Nation, One Election Bill while the Wakf Bill could turn off the allies who have sizeable Muslim base.
 5. Caste, Census, and
Civil Code Civil Code
With the postponed Census set to start, it will be caste politics season. Caste and social justice that the Congress targets to galvanise against the Hindutva forces of the BJP are being countered by the latter as unifying socio-economic categories. They also raise awareness about the Uniform Civil Code (UCC) which Home Minister also pledges to implement across the BJP-ruled states starting with Uttarakhand by January 2025. Indeed, these efforts could possibly widen the presently existing political and even social gaps.
Looking Ahead India has entered 2025 yet the political  the environment remains unstable, competitive and witnessing battles on ideologies. From further scaling up competition between the parties, to full-throttle push for legislative changes, the next year seems to be a defining year for future of political agenda of the nation.