However, the BJP needs to exercise caution with rampant poaching — read defection exercises — that has led to politicians of various shapes and sizes, lining up to join the party in power. These days, not a week goes without someone or the other, in many cases even political heavyweights, joining the BJP. It constituted individuals associated with the Sangh Parivar, not all of them familiar with the ways of conducting electoral politics. A look at recent defections to the BJP in Karnataka, Goa and Maharashtra, presents a different side of the problem. Having said that, the BJP would be well-advised not to lose its original hallmark — party with a difference.

Source: dna August 02, 2019 01:40 UTC