Regional Parties Keep BJP At Bay – OpEd

Indian democracy has always been a tug of war between Delhi’s ambitions and the states’ stubborn sense of self. Nowhere does this play out more vividly than in the Bharatiya Janata Party’s repeated failures to crack states where regional forces hold sway. Despite commanding national elections, despite its organisational muscle and charismatic leadership, the BJP keeps running into walls in Tamil Nadu, West Bengal, and Jharkhand. This is not bad luck or poor strategy. It reveals a hard truth about Indian politics...