Why Indian women are still supporting the bjp?
When I say Indian women my pool automatically is restricted to women on this sub. Not the real women who probably never got enough education might not have financial power and end up voting for whoever their family decides. I get it.
The question is for women who come from middle class families, have or are trying to make a career, have some cash flow, go out to work/study or are in oppressive marriages, where they have to take care of household, children and dela with in laws, change their dresscode while going to in laws or in festivities. Why do you still support BJP? Are there benefits?
The right wing against everything that you have been crying over. Freedom to work, freedom to wear whatever you want, wherever you want and step out anywhere at anytime like the foreign countries. Have a voice, equal rep at workplace, equal opportunities to grow at workplace, equality of salaries. Equal quality education like your brothers. And not carrying the burden of house hold duties, childcare and rituals.
Edit: since many of you are asking who I support and there's a plethora of comments and baseless arguments like if not then then who. Here's what I have to say. I would not answer who should be supported. I would rather tell you why I don't support bjp and why I think no women of this country should.
BJP has close links with rss and the whole right wing eco system wants the women to be fit in their narrative of womanhood. Ideal bahu, someone who does not speak in opposition to patriarchal norms which run in the family. Because for them the family structure is more important than a woman's rights and her freedom. So if a family patriarch decides certain rules the woman should follow. You will see plenty of these ideas roaming around in family WA groups.
The bjp is full of hyper nationalist men with the ideas of hyper nationalism. Which does not care for the poor and the marginalized from an ideology stand point. The ideology is oppression. If you are born with a certain sex, caste or financial marker you carry it for life. The ones who are born upper caste, men and in power must hold it while everyone else should serve them. We have seen this in cases wherever manusmriti is criticized how much violence rw has done.
The overall rw - have you ever seen a woman at the forefront of any really any event that rw conducts, have you any seat at the table for them? All hyper violence is inflicted by men. On the other hand we have liberal and left segments that keep women at the forefront. If they don't women from these spaces have a voice to criticize them. You try and criticize why there is not an equal rep in any rw event, you and I know what your fate would be. You will either be mocked or shut up.
Also RSS is called rashtriya swayam sevak sangh. The men who volunteer themselves for the country. Its women's wing however is called rashtriya sevika sangh - no swayam there. Why? Go read about it!!
Women will always be secondary citizens in the ideal ram rajya if they ever achieve.