--- On Mon, 22/6/09, Kiran K Karthikeyan <[email protected]> wrote:
> From: Kiran K Karthikeyan <[email protected]>
> Subject: Re: [silk] BJP pulling wool over our eyes?
> To: [email protected]
> Date: Monday, 22 June, 2009, 10:28 AM
> 2009/6/22 lukhman_khan <[email protected]>
>
> > What does one make of the BJP attempting to put
> Band-aid on its
> > hindutva-RSS cancer? (my POV)
> >
> > Are the educated class so foolish to be taken on yet
> another ride?
> >
> > Or will it boomerang by BJP losing even its hard core
> hindu votes too, now
> > that they are wooing muslims who still wont vote for
> them, come what may.
>
>
> I don't think the BJP lost because of the "hindutva-RSS
> cancer", but rather
> due to bad campaign and worse candidates. The more educated
> and liberal
> voters (usually in urban centres) don't make or break
> elections in India. It
> is them who might not vote for the BJP because of the
> hindutva-RSS
> association. As for the rest (around 80%), they have more
> important things
> to worry about and if a hardline Hindu nationalist party
> will assuage them,
> they will give it their vote.
>
> It is surprising that many think that the Congress victory
> is a mandate
> against hardline Hinduism (and therefore the BJP). Congress
> ran a more
> grassroots campaign, better candidates, and overall was the
> party the masses
> could identify with.
>
> What is sad (at least for me) is that because of the
> problems with/in the
> BJP (and if it sinks like many predict), India is deprived
> of a good
> Right-wing party. Given our rabid socialist tendencies (and
> history), good
> right wing politics would bring much needed balance.
> However, I'm glad
> Manmohan is the PM now rather than Advani.
>
> Kiran
Pathetic.
Good right wing politics is oxymoronic.
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