Three years before the next general election, the anti-BJP camp is grappling with who, how and why is coming together across party lines.
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In the meeting held at Sharad Pawar’s Delhi residence, the discussion of forming an anti-BJP alliance intensified.
Photo by Suresh K Pandey
Whenever there is a reorganization of opposition forces at the national level, the legacy of socialist leader Ram Manohar Lohia, known as the architect of coalition politics in India, may be invoked. In 1967, when the Congress suffered an unprecedented defeat in the general elections and assembly elections in several states for the first time, Lohia led the formation of the United Legislature Party, which was the Bharatiya Kranti Dal, Samyukta Socialist, It was an anti-Congress alliance. Party, Praja Socialist Party and Jana Sangh (Forerunner of BJP). This coalition of legislators, including regional parties and Congress defectors, formed governments in several states. The era of coalition politics, which thus began with the BJP forming alliances with erstwhile parties with whom it shared little except rivalry with the Congress, now dominated national politics with the party affiliated to the RSS. Came in almost the same way. Was against the 1967 alliance. The other side now has a different set…
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