Tuesday, May 20, 2008

Indian right is a mess

The right wing political parties in India are in a mess.
Consider this
1) International media, when ever referring to BJP would always prefixes it with “Hindu-Nationalist party” . It is used in pejorative terms with negative tone. This is despite the fact that Republicans & Democrats in US are more Christian & more nationalistic we do not see any where press prefixing “Christian-Nationalist” Republicans/Democrats
2) Indian English media absolutely loathes them. Every time they take BJP/RSS they always try to convey to the listener that they are talking about someone who is worse than Al Qaida/Taliban/Hezbollah/Hitler.
3) There is an immense opportunity for the right wing parties to grow but they are hell bent on giving up the ideology and becoming B team of Congress party.
4) Despite being a right wing party, the economic policies of BJP sound as if they are lifted out of the red book. They are simply too terrified to implement bold economic reforms.
5) The party which was once called “Party with difference” has become “Party without any difference”

So how to improve the situation?
I will deal with these issues in the next post.

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