If the current tenure of the Narendra Modi-led government began with the abrogation of Article 370, one of the three core objectives of BJP’s ideology, it is bookended by a more fundamental change, that of the statute books themselves in the shape of the new Bharatiya Nyaya and Nagarik Surakhsha Sanhita and the Bharatiya Saakshya Adhineeyum.
The three Sanhitas, as they are commonly referred, have replaced the Cr.PC, the IPC and the Evidence Act, and are a large part of what the government has termed its decolonisation project.
While the three “core issues” of the BJP – abrogation of Article 370, construction of a Ram Temple in Ayodhya and the implementation of a Uniform Civil Code - are front and centre in any discussion of BJP’s ideology, the decolonisation project as the BJP understands it has been the quieter meta narrative running through it.
