The Congress introduced neoliberal market reforms as also the expansion of social egalitarianism with the second democratic upsurge. What India requires is a third democratic upsurge to come out of the current majoritarian impasse. The fruits of the second democratic upsurge should have been appropriated for an egalitarian project. The third democratic upsurge has to re-appropriate the democratization achieved through previous social democratic policy and have a rethink on aggressive neoliberalism. The third democratic upsurge thus needs to be built around a new imagination that cuts across castes, classes and religious denominations.

Source: The Telegraph October 09, 2019 20:37 UTC