BJP: Mughal clones?
Does it sound like a totally preposterous comparison: of the BJP to the Mughals? But there it is, the BJP has just done what the Mughals did centuries ago. Once past their prime, the Mughals oversaw the demise of Hindustan, first losing the south and letting administration slide. In our times, the BJP rose swiftly to take Delhi and spread its wings across the country. Slowly those wings lost wind; its southern bastion, Karnataka took the sting out of the BJP’s neta-speak, rather raving and ranting about corruption and scams. Now Karnataka has firmly rejected the BJP, actually opting for the ‘scam prone’ Congress instead. One wonders: was it a mere coincidence that all the scams crept out of the woodwork while BJP was facing voter rejection? Were the BJP years all that scam free or it is mere Congressi forebearance that has kept those worms inside the wood work still? The BJP mughals have not only lost the south first in their retreat ...