"In its only southern stronghold, the BJP is adrift and discredited."
With one year left for the next assembly elections, the BJP in Karnataka is adrift and discredited, its track record tainted with corruption scams, its support base dissipating, and its ideological agenda unravelling. The Hindu : Opinion / Op-Ed : Wilting saffron, flailing government: How did this happen to a "party with a difference," one that promised to make Karnataka the springboard of the BJPs expansion in the south by providing model, corruption-free governance?
Beholden to powerful factions within the party, notably the mining lobby and the land mafia, the party has never been able to seriously address its pre-poll promises to the people. To make matters worse for the scandal-ridden government, it was losing its moorings in Hindutva, further alienating it from its core support base.
Stranded between an unfulfilled mission of governance, a floundering ideological project, and the demands of its faction-ridden support base, the BJP’s Karnataka paradigm is steadily coming apart.
Beholden to powerful factions within the party, notably the mining lobby and the land mafia, the party has never been able to seriously address its pre-poll promises to the people. To make matters worse for the scandal-ridden government, it was losing its moorings in Hindutva, further alienating it from its core support base.
Stranded between an unfulfilled mission of governance, a floundering ideological project, and the demands of its faction-ridden support base, the BJP’s Karnataka paradigm is steadily coming apart.
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