Congress' Liberalism not Secularism Main Opposition to BJP
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Published in the Times of India The results of the recent assembly elections have set off another spate of Congress-mukt Bharat opinion pieces. Indeed the results are sobering for the Party and its supporters - not because the Congress was realistically expected to win any of the 4 big states even if it were at the top of its game but because its loss has significantly shrunk its governance footprint. However, the Party remains the main Opposition in large parts of the country and certainly the only ideological challenge to the BJP in 2019. More than just the secular challenge - which many would-be PM aspirants also claim - to BJP’s communalism, it is only the Congress Party which presents a liberal alternative to BJP’s parochialism and bigotry. For a country which aspires to emerge as a global economic and intellectual leader, this liberal perspective to nation building is key.
Congress' Liberalism not Secularism Main Opposition to BJP
Congress' Liberalism not Secularism Main…
Congress' Liberalism not Secularism Main Opposition to BJP
Published in the Times of India The results of the recent assembly elections have set off another spate of Congress-mukt Bharat opinion pieces. Indeed the results are sobering for the Party and its supporters - not because the Congress was realistically expected to win any of the 4 big states even if it were at the top of its game but because its loss has significantly shrunk its governance footprint. However, the Party remains the main Opposition in large parts of the country and certainly the only ideological challenge to the BJP in 2019. More than just the secular challenge - which many would-be PM aspirants also claim - to BJP’s communalism, it is only the Congress Party which presents a liberal alternative to BJP’s parochialism and bigotry. For a country which aspires to emerge as a global economic and intellectual leader, this liberal perspective to nation building is key.