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Aakar Patel | BJP has never spelt out what ‘parivartan’ it hopes to bring
Published Mar 16, 2021, 4:12 am IST
Updated Mar 16, 2021, 4:12 am IST
The Jan Sangh said that it would repeal preventive detention laws which it said were absolutely in contradiction to individual liberty
It was only under Lal Krishna Advani, and then especially under Narendra Modi, that the BJP became the mass-based electoral force it has become, from the cadre-based party that was the Jan Sangh. (Photo: PTI)
In 2019, the BJP won 18 of the 42 Lok Sabha seats in West Bengal. It is hard to see why it will not win the Assembly elections now because it has so much more resources than the rest (more than 90 per cent of electoral bond money, which is the anonymous but legal funding by corporates to political parties, according to RTI reports) and also the power of the Central administration. Prime Minister Narendra Modi has promised he will bring real change to West Bengal. Perhaps he will. The inter
BJP and Real Change it promises to bring every election
The interesting thing to me is that the BJP has never defined what this change is
Sunday March 14, 2021 10:34 PM, Aakar Patel
The BJP won 18 of the 42 Lok Sabha seats in West Bengal. It is hard to see why it will not win the Assembly elections because it has so much more resource than the rest (more than 90% of electoral bond money, which is the anonymous but legal funding by corporates to parties, according to RTI reports) and also the power of the national administration. The prime minister says he will bring real change to Bengal. Perhaps he will. The interesting thing to me is that his party has never defined what this change is.