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BJP’s missing diagnosis: Why couldn’t the Sangh Parivar hear the young?
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The Indian Express
The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) was, before Saturday and remains today, the single-largest party in the parliament of the world’s largest democracy.
A national trade union (Bharatiya Mazdoor Sangh), farmers’ organisation (Bharatiya Kisan Sangh), educational institutions, a student union (ABVP) and a youth organisation (Bharatiya Janata Yuva Morcha) are just some prominent examples.
How the BJP and Sangh Parivar got hereFirst, after 12 years as a ruling party, the BJP’s most valuable asset has eroded.
An extension of the first factor is the flattening of power within the Sangh Parivar itself.
Many of the people in party and parivar now enjoy only a derived credibility that lives and dies with the PM, Home Minister and government.