BJP's dilemma: Why Modi's party cannot be all-things-to-all people like Congress

Abstract

To garner more votes, BJP has to move to the middle ground and not be too religion-based, especially since it is now being targeted by a new Congress-Left-Janata parivar front. Throughout the last century, post-independent India witnessed what were popularly called anti-Congress fronts of various hues. Sometimes those who left the Congress formed their own parties (at various points, GK Moopanar, Pranab Mukherjee, Sharad Pawar and AK Antony did that); at other times, they also joined different anti-Congress formations. In the late sixties, one even saw the bizarre spectacle of both the CPI and the Bharatiya Jana Sangh (BJS, the precursor to the BJP) on the same side of the anti-Congress front in Madhya Pradesh. In 1989, we saw both the BJP and the Left supporting VP Singh’s minority government from the outside. Read more at: https://www.firstpost.com/business/bjps-dilemma-why-modis-party-cannot-be-all-things-to-all-people-like-congress-1848115.html