Encountering Pratijñābhaṅga: BJP’s Jumla Politics and the Hollow Piramal Promise
Encountering Pratijñābhaṅga: BJP’s Jumla Politics and the Hollow Piramal Promise The Sanātana Auto-Critique of the NDA Regime, 2013–2026 Posted on 16th August, 2026 (GMT 03:05 hrs) ABSTRACT This article argues that the political formation presenting itself as temporal guardian of Sanātana Dharma stands convicted, by that tradition’s own oath-jurisprudence, of serial pratijñā-bhaṅga (breach of the solemn word). Classical Indian thought treats the given word as a binding bond, its rupture punished both in the seen (dṛṣṭa: curse, fine, exile, infamy) and unseen (adṛṣṭa: loss of merit, hell). Reconstructing this jurisprudence from Vedic, epic, Nyāya and Dharmaśāstra sources, the paper applies it to two cases. Focus One: the Hollow Piramal Promise in the DHFL insolvency, where Piramal Capital publicly pledged fixed-deposit holders an extra 10% over the CoC plan yet delivered only 23.08% recovery (~77% haircut on ~₹5,375 crore), while assigning ~₹45,050 crore in alleged-fraud recoveri...