There’s still time for BJP if it acts fast
Is the BJP losing the plot? Yes it is. The reasons are many. It started with the scale of the BJP victory in the 2014 election.. Such an enormous mandate by the people of India should have led to humility at the trust the electorate had reposed in them. This did not happen. Instead, there was arrogance writ large on the faces of the winning side right from the top leadership to the rank and file of the BJP. Statements were heard from many quarters starting with the party president that the BJP would rule for decades.
The Congress party had been decimated. The cry soon went up of ‘Congress Mukt Bharat’ not realising that a party that was over a hundred years old and one that had ruled India for decades since Independence had roots far too deep to even think of wiping it out. The realisat...